Thanks to her dual scholarship in psychology and art history, Mary Gedo, the distinguished author of two books on Picasso, has embarked on a formidable undertaking as editor of this novel series. In the format of an annual journal? assembling critical essays, book reviews, critiques, and rebuttals by prominent art historians and psychoanalysts, this publication concerns itself primarily with the exploration of art works as mirrors of the artist's personality and individuality. The subjects discussed cover the last two centuries and include one art critic (Baudelaire), two sculptors (Henry Moore and Louise Nevelson), and 10 painters ranging from Delacroix to Klee.

Since a pithily succinct interpretative summary of each paper is contained in the editor's introduction, to undertake an abstract of the individual essays is not necessary. While neither volume attempts to achieve a degree of effective chronological continuity, considerably greater cohesiveness is attained in the second