QUALITY: Its Image in the Arts

Quality is the postulate"" for this book of 17 essays and some 400 pictures (black and white and color) -- the former by contributors of some note including Virgil Thomson, Eric Bentley, Joseph Wechsberg, Richard Eberhart, Stanley Kauffmann, Harold Rosenberg and Elizabeth Hardwick and the editor. The subjects range anywhere from the lively arts to the novel, from photography to graphics, and from gastronomy to the avant-garde, and the whole project seems suspiciously designed to lend tone to the home decor.