Private Foundations and Business Corporations active in Arts/Humanities/Education, VolumeTwo by Daniel MillsapsReview by: Romare BeardenARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4/5 (SUMMER 1975), pp. S13-S14Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27945479 .

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Illustrated Running Press Edition of the American Classica Gray's Anatomy is now available in a soft-cover edition,

retailing for $7.95. This is an excellent reference book for artists and art students, and the price is nominal enough to allow for ready-reference. Although it is a reprint of the 1901 edition of this famous textbook, we think that much of human anatomy hasn't changed in the time elapsed, and that it would indeed be a welcome addition to personal and public collections. Although a double book with more than 600 illustrations and over 1200 pages, the binding has been done twice to ensure endurance, or relative perma-

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K?hmen, Volker. A rt History of Photography. New York, Studio:Viking, 1975. 232p. $15.95. 74-3703.

The question of whether photography is art (or: in what context should photography be considered as art?it's really the same question) is raised once again in Kahmen's

Art History of Photography. Originally published as Foto grafie al Kunst in 1973 by Verlag Ernst Wasmuth Tubingen, it later made an appearance as Photography as Art in England in 1974 and emerged this year under its present title. It is not a picture book, although it is illustrated with over 350 photographs, nor is it a history of photo graphy?not even an art history of photography?although some historical questions are raised. The book is a 26-page

essay to which 232 pages of photographs are appended. The

photographs are reference material to the essay, and are

not reproduced with fidelity to the originals. They are not bad reproductions, but not good either: far too much con

trast in the printing. Many of the pictures have been pre viously published. The sequencing of the pictures is. for the most part, highly verbal and associative. Pictures are grouped

by subject matter and by superficial compositional similarity. The essay, short as it is, discussed the acceptance of

photography from what might be called a sociological point of view. K?hmen acknowledges his indebtedness to the ideas of Walter Benjamin,1930 version. The definitive work on the subject of Art and Photography is. and will be for some time, Aaron Scharf s Art and Photograpliy (Baltimore. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1969). Kahmen's book pre sents no challenge to it, yet, as a serious and thoughtful bit of writing, makes its contribution to the literature of photography.

?Marie Czach

Millsaps, Daniel, ed. Private Foundations and Business Corporations active in Arts/Humanities I Education,

Volume Two. Washington, D.C, Washington Inter

national Arts Letter, cl974. S45.00 77-140925.

Results of intensive research of over 60,000 grants which have been made by private foundations in the U.S. to efforts in the arts, humanities and education in these fields over the last ten years are included in this new volume which cites over 1,000 private foundations identified with names and either home or office addresses of officers of the foundations, as well as the names of the receiving institutions and amounts of selected typical grants over $1,000 during the period covered.

In addition, there isa section showing award-winning

programs of 298 corporations in the arts during the last eight years. The editors note that private giving increased in 1974 despite depressed economic conditions.

Fields of interest to our members include painting, S-13

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sculpture, prints, crafts, multi-media, museums, video,

libraries, arts administration, architecture, conservation,

community arts, humanities as they relate to the arts.

The format is 8 1/2 by 11" printed from typed copy. For $45.00 one would hope for more, especially since the book will largely be purchased by libraries because of the high price. The binding is poor, and that is euphemis tic, since the book arrived with a broken binding before even being opened. Obviously the adhesive for this perfect binding didn't work. I wish I could suggest this volume, since the information therein is important, but they should bring down the price and perfect the format before asking librarians to buy it.

After all, when we talk about the human ends of science and technology we are concerned with aesthetics- indeed th e world of art. Science is greatly absorbed with mankind 's

perceptions of the objective world. Art, whether it be literature, dance, music, or painting, sculpture and the graphic arts, is con cerned with the conceptions men and women have of themselves, and of their relation to the world about them. However, neither the scientist, the technologist, nor the artist works in a vacuum; all are involved with human ends. That is to say, human impulses, drives, urges, desires, motives and ideals.

?Romare Bearden before the graduating class of Carnegie-Mellon University, June 1975

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