Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
Beyond Art
By Ingrid D. Rowland
Etruscan Art Ridgway.
by Otto J. Brendel
Yale University Press (reissue), 535 pp., $27.50 (paper)
The Western Greeks
edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli
Milan: Bompiani, 799 pp., L. 85,000
Etruscan art still seems to fall into the category of slightly reprehensible tastes, one of those childish things to put away in due time, to make room for the sober sophistication of the Greeks. Yet D.H. Lawrence, for one, made no bones about preferring Etruscan immediacy to Hellenic cultivation.
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