Volume 27, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1981
The Macedonian Connection
By Peter Green
The Search For Alexander November 16, 1980 to April 5, 1981
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,
The Search For Alexander: An Exhibition
with essays by Nikolaos Yalouris, by Manolis Andronikos, by Katerina Rhomiopoulou
New York Graphic Society, 192 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The Search for Alexander
by Robin Lane Fox
Little Brown, 451 pp., $24.95
After Tutankhamun, Alexander. With an explosion of publicity, yet another spectacular venture in museum promotion has been launched: how fitting that Time Inc. and the National Bank of Greece, co-sponsors of this new exhibition, should have patented as its trade mark the royal Macedonian starburst. 'The Search for Alexander' has arrived at the National Gallery of Art in Washington—en route for Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and New York—regally packaged and presented.
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