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Seventieth year of continuous publication Volume 71, Number 1, March 1972 ARTnews [[image]] Cover: Jade and gold garments as sarcophagi of Prince Liu Sheng and his wife Tou Wan from China's resplendent Han Dynasty. Because of its greater simplicity, the one at left (on cover) is presumed to be the princess'. They are among 2800 objects unearthed in a royal rock-cut tomb in Hopei Province in 1968 9see article on page 30). Photo by Marc Riboud (Magnum) whose pictures of China are on show at the Metropoltan Museum this month. Editor: Thomas B. Hess Executive Editors: John Ashbery, Harris Rosenstein Senior Editor: Henry A. La Farge Managing Editor: Elizabeth C. Baker Associate Editor: Dolores Fenn Editorial Associates Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Michael Benedikt, James Bishop, Jerry Clarke, Phyllis Derfner, Deborah Dorsey, Natalie Edgar, Jane Gollin, Gerrit Henry, April Kingsley, Kim Levin, Gretchen T. Munson, Carter Ratcliff, Barbara Schwartz, David Shapiro, Jeanne Siegel, Bruce Wolmer Contributing Editors Milton Gendel, Rome John Russell, London Design Director: Bradbury Thompson Publisher: Aivin Garfin Advertising Sales: Sephine B. Melrod, Marian Conner Advertising Ass't: Patricia A. Kehoe Circulation Manager: Joan A. Rasanen Production Manager: Angelo Cutro Productin Ass't: Robert Preato European advertising offices: 80 Haymarket, London S.W.1, England Telephone: 839-6166 J. Heusch Publicité 7 rue Cognacq-Jay, Paris VII, France Telephone: 551-63-99 Societá Pubblicitá Editoriale Via G. B. Pirelli, 32 Milan, Italy 20124 Telephone: 6240 ARTnews Circulation Office: 121 Garden Street, Marion, Ohio 43302 ARTnews editorial and executive office: 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Cable: ARTnews, New York Telephone: 212-838-3730 ARTnew is published monthly, except June, July, August, when quarterly. [[copyright]] 1972 by Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine or the cover may be reproduced in any manner in whole or in part without written consent of the copyright proprietor. The complete contents of each issue of ARTnews are indexed in The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature monthly, and in The Art Index, published quarterly and available in public libraries. Entered as 2nd class matter Feb. 5, 1909, 2nd class postage paid at New York, N.Y. and various additional mailing offices. Subscription rates: $13.00 per year (foreign $1 additional): $18.95 per year, including ARTnews Annual (foreign $1.50 additional). Single copies of ARTnews Annual, $7.95. Articles 22 Matisse's Sculpture: The Invisible Revolution, by Pierre Schneider 26 Grey Eminence, by John Ashbery 28 From Another Country, by Françoise Nora 30 Recent Discoveries in China, by David R. Raddock 36 Painter of the New Eden, by Patricia Hills 40 England and the Romantic European Community, by John Russell 48 The Flowering of Thomas Sills, by Lawrence Campbell 50 The SoHo Body Snatcher, by Garrit Henry Colorplates 27 Blue Painting, Brice Marden 28 Why Did We Leave Zanzibar, Barbara Chase-Riboud 37 Corn Husking, Eastman Johnson 38 Catching the Bee, Eastman Johnson 39 Cranberry Pickers, Eastman Johnson 40 Cheetah with Two Indians, George Stubbs 49 Nightcap, Thomas Sills 50 Woman Eating, Duane Hanson Departments 6 Editor's Letters 7 Art News International 8 Reviews and Previews 46 Coming Auctions 52 Paris, by Pierre Martory 71 International Calendar 72 New York Calendar 74 Where and When to Exhibit 74 Competitions, Scholarships Coming The Purist, Cubist paintings of Le Corbusier and their relationship to his architecture and the style of the 1920s...the modern Purism of Sally Drummond...a great international loan show if the medieval art comes to Ottawa...recent work by Norman Bluhm and Ed Ruscha. 5