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THE VOICES OF THE CATHEDRALSartell PrenticeMorrow ($3.50). With the animated scholarship that distinguished his rich interpretation of church architecture (The Heritage of the Cathedral), the late Dr. Prentice here analyzes church art in terms of its living background, clearly deciphers many an obscure iconographic symbol. His thesis: that church art. most inspired in medieval Gothic, thereafter declined to ornamental gibberish because "there was no longer a body of tradition everywhere respected upon whose wings an artist might rise to heights far beyond his own capabilities."
SOME STILL LIVEFrank G. Tinker Jr....
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