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Editor, Catherine Taylor

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* What We're Reading
"Art: The Critics' Choice"
by Marina Vaizey
"Toulouse-Lautrec and the Fin de Siecle"
by David Sweetman
"Winding Paths"
by Bruce Chatwin
* Images of Desire: Nudes in Art
* Excerpt from "Nylon" by Susannah Handley
* Bestsellers
"Century"
by Bruce Bernard
"Mozart"
by Peter Gay
"L'Autre"
by Jean Baudrillard

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"Art: the Critics' Choice"
by Marina Vaizey
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1854106503/entertainments08
Marina Vaizey's "Art: The Critics' Choice" is a sumptuously
produced art book in 10 chapters, which draws on experts in
the field of every particular historical period under
consideration. Stretching from "Graeco-Roman and Early
Christian Art", through the Renaissance, the Baroque and the
19th century to "the Late 20th Century", the collection offers
"scholarly snapshots of nearly 2,000 years of Western art."

"Toulouse-Lautrec and the Fin de Siecle"
by David Sweetman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340607483/entertainments08
David Sweetman brings together the dissolute lives of various
artists who came to represent decadent fin-de-siecle Paris,
with Toulouse-Lautrec, absinthe drinker and brothel-frequenter,
at the centre. Sweetman shows in this handsome biography that
Lautrec, instrumental in the development of the poster as well
as a major influence on Picasso and Van Gogh, was more than a
"deformed man who saw ugliness in everything."

"Winding Paths"
by Bruce Chatwin
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0224060503/entertainments08
"Life is a journey through a wildnerness" wrote the flamboyant
novelist Bruce Chatwin. In "Winding Paths" the remarkable
photographs Chatwin took on his many and varied travels are
brought together, from fish that gleam with a painter's lustre
in Istanbul to the deserts of West Africa and the mosques of
Iran, where Chatwin retraced the footsteps of the early 20th-
century traveller Robert Byron.

***IMAGES OF DESIRE: NUDES IN ART***
Whether the sculptures of Greece and Rome take your fancy or
you prefer the photographic nudes of fashion photographer
Yorick Blumenfeld, there's something for everyone in our
nudes in art booklist.
Arts & Music

***EXCERPT FROM "NYLON" BY SUSANNAH HANDLEY***
Lustrous, seamless and as desirable as nylon stockings to
the 1950s, Susannah Handley's lively account of the fabric
that spawned the democratisation of fashion is aided by her
superb choice of illustrative plates, which particularly
complement the early history and advertising of synthetic
products, led by the giants Du Pont and Courtaulds, who m
oved from gunpowder to lingerie--the same raw ingredients--as
times changed.
Arts & Music

***BESTSELLERS***
In bestsellers this month we bring you the 6kg photographic
colossus that documents the best and worst moments of the 20th
century in 1,100 images, an intelligent biography of the
composer who best embodies the Enlightenment and 100 close-up
snapshots of passengers on the Paris Metro.

"Century"
by Bruce Bernard
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714838489/entertainments08

"Mozart"
by Peter Gay
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297643460/entertainments08

"L'Autre"
by Jean Baudrillard
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/071483842X/entertainments08

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