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BOOKS, Page 68Season's Readings
A shelf of treasures that celebrate art, faith, history and,
yes, pigs
By STEFAN KANFER
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD
(Collins; $45). On May 20, 1992, 75 photographers invaded
Movietown for 24 hours. They emerged with a revealing album of
stars and wannabees: tots holding their 8-by-10 glossies;
Harrison Ford, burned out from too many interviews; Hugh Hefner
coming to the door accompanied by a Doberman. Hollywood has
never looked so energetic, wealthy or anxious.
THE UBIQUITOUS PIG
By Marilyn Nissenson and Susan Jonas (Abrams; $34.95). As
this work whimsically demonstrates, porkers are everywhere, from
OvidUs verses to Miss Piggy's flirtations; from cartoons to
medical labs, where cross-species organ transplants led
scientists to observe, "Man is more nearly like the pig than
the pig wants to admit."
NAPOLEON 1800-1840
Produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones (Random
House; $85). History unfurls like the tricolore in this opulent
work tracing Bonaparte's 14 years of supremacy. Within that
astonishingly brief period, the little Corsican won wars and
women, revised laws and set a style still echoing in EuropeUs
corridors of power.
THE BRANCACCI CHAPEL
By Umberto Baldini and Ornella Casazza (Abrams; $125). Now,
after years of dedicated labor, the frescoes in the Florentine
chapel look as they did in the Renaissance. The biblical figures
painted by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi glow anew in
this testament to religious faith, artistic genius and
scientific restoration.
MASKS OF BALI
By Judy Slattum (Chronicle; hardcover, $29.95; paperback,
$18.95). According to the Balinese, their religion is
monotheistic; but their God "takes as many forms as the sun has
rays." The most dramatic of those forms are here, along with
scores of other stark, comic or beautiful masks. Each is
exquisitely carved; all express the yearning of an ancient and
still dynamic culture.
CLAUDE MONET
By Virginia Spate (Rizzoli; $65). Paul Cezanne put down his
fellow painter: "Monet is only an eye." Perhaps, but with that
organ the great Impressionist analyzed the effects of sunlight
on cathedrals and haystacks and water lilies -- and altered our
perceptions forever. A scholarly appreciation reveals why and
how.
WIND, SAND & SILENCE
By Victor Englebert (Chronicle; $35). During the past 30
years a Belgian photographer-writer lived and traveled with the
last nomads of Africa -- the Tuareg, Bororo and Danakil tribes.
His diverting account shows many things these supposedly
primitive wanderers have to teach the outsider about family
values.
TITANIC
By Don Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean
liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had
scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal
encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck
in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the past in careful,
chilling detail.
SPANISH SPLENDOR
By Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian
Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the
Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and
wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers
every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but
Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes.