Volume 20, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1974
Shots of Donatello
By John Pope-Hennessy
Donatello: Prophet of Modern Vision
photographs by David Finn, text by Frederick Hartt
Abrams, 486, 430 illustrations pp., $85.00
I must declare an interest in this book. Three or four years ago—in 1969 I think it was—I was shown some photographs of Donatello's sculptures. The photographer, Mr. David Finn, was an enthusiast, and as he propped them up along one wall of my office, I did not have the heart to say how insensitive and meretricious I thought they were. Early in 1970 I was informed, to my surprise, that they were to be published, and I was asked by Abrams to write the introductory text. From the correspondence it became clear that what was planned was a whale of a book; fifteen by eighteen inches, sixteen by twenty, no format was too large. I turned the crazy project down, and the photographs are published in this volume (in a slightly smaller format: they measure only thirteen inches by sixteen) with letterpress by Professor Frederick Hartt.
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