Studio International – January 1967

Volume 173 Number 885

Contents

2  Comment: Bridges and Oldenburgs/Jasia Reichardt

4  ‘Pure’ and ‘applied’ art – the need for the right balance in education/Tom Hudson

6  Political parties and the arts/Mark Glazebrook

9  What kind of Royal Academy? An interview with W. T. Monnington, R.A., newly elected President of the Royal Academy/William Townsend

12  Some notes on Kandinsky and his development towards non-figurative art/Frank Whitford

18  Poussin and de Staël: a comparison/John Berger

26  The Florentine disaster and the loss to art history/Robert Hughes

32  Justin Knowles: ‘dimensional paintings’/Paul Overy

34  Exotic art. London commentary/Edward Lucie-Smith

40  Art with irony. New York commentary/Dore Ashton

44  The death of the Salons. Paris commentary/Jean Clay

48  On exhibition: a selection from current and forthcoming exhibitions

52  Book reviews/A. P. Carter, Kevin Gough-Yates, Donald Ogden Stewart, George Savage, Charles S. Spencer, Frank Whitford, Timothy Wilkinson

55  Art prices current/George Savage

Editor/Peter Townsend
Advertising & Publicity Manager/Benson Zonena
Art Editor/Michael Young
Contributing Editors/Dore Ashton (New York),
Jean Clay (Paris), Frank Whitford (London)

Editorial Advisory Committee/J. P. Hodin (International relations),
Alan Bowness, Andrew Forge, David Thompson

International Advisory Panel:
Austria: Dr Werner Hofmann
Argentina: Jorge Romero Brest
Belgium: Michel Seuphor
Brazil: Mario Pedrosa
France: Jacques Lassaigne
Germany: Dr Werner Schmalenbach
Holland: Prof. A. M. Hammacher
Israel: Haim Gamzu
Italy: Prof. G. C. Argan
Japan: Shuzo Takiguchi
Scandinavia: Reidar Revold
Spain: Alejandro Cirici-Pellicer
Switzerland: Dr Carola Giedeon-Welcker
U.S.A.: Thomas Messer, J. J. Sweeney
Yugoslavia: Aleksa Celebonovic

Studio International, January 1967, Volume 173 Number 885. Cover image: Outside the Uffizi in Florence. Photographed shortly after the floods receded by Robert Whitaker, whose photographs illustrate the article on the Florentine disaster by Robert Hughes.