(Doubleday, $24.) Twenty-five years of rock-and-roll, as seen through the eyes of the tempestuous visionary whose art was concert promotion and whose signature was throwing tantrums.ĬHRISTMAS IN JULY: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges. Danto argues persuasively in these essays that with Andy Warhol's famous boxes art reached its logical end, leaving us with a liberating pluralism.īILL GRAHAM PRESENTS: My Life Inside Rock and Out. (Knopf, $40.) An irresistibly seductive book that uses "paper engineering" and a battery of scientific and geometric devices to make art history yield up its secrets.īEYOND THE BRILLO BOX: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective. By Christopher Frayling, Helen Frayling and Ron van der Meer. (Routledge, $29.95.) An ambitious and impressive chronicle of the past decade's battles between conservatives and the iconoclastic artists who push their buttons - among them Robert Mapplethorpe, Salman Rushdie, Andres Serrano and 2 Live Crew. Martin's, $40.) In what is nothing less than an interpretation of the whole history of Western architecture, Yale's revered teacher of architecture for some 40 years explores the relationship of buildings to landscape.ĪRRESTING IMAGES: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions.
(Random House, $20.) Two dramatic, intertwined reports - one an account of the world as reflected in a 24-hour period in the Adirondacks, the other an account of the world as broadcast on 103 television channels in a single day.ĪRCHITECTURE: The Natural and the Manmade. Art, Music & Popular Culture THE AGE OF MISSING INFORMATION. Books are arranged alphabetically under subject headings. It suggests only high points in the main fields of reader interest, and it does not include titles chosen by the editors of The Book Review as the Best Books of 1992. This list has been selected from books reviewed since the Christmas Books issue of December 1991.