Anyone who loves the sights of Paris will be captivated by this U.S. edition of the Musee Carnavalet's bilingual catalog for that Paris museum's 1986 exhibition of work by Judith Clancy. It reproduces 108 drawings and collages from the Carnavalet's only solo exhibition by an American artist. The text, in both English and French, is by the artist, the inspector general of museums for the City of Paris and chief curator of the Carnavalet, the director of the Rijksmuseum's print and drawing collection, noted critics and others.

Judith Clancy (1933-1990) was an artist whose work -- included in major museums, public and private collections -- focused on drawing. It appeared in the books of such authors as Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence), M.F.K. Fisher (As They Were and Last House, as well as their collaborative Not a Station But a Place) and Ernest Callenbach (Living Poor With Style) as well as her own books (Last Look at the Old Met, Not a Station But a Place and The Ecotopian Sketchbook, all of which -- along with Bastard in the Ragged Suit, which she co-edited -- are available from Synergistic) and such magazines as Gourmet, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest and California Living.

Internationally-known art and literature critic Edouard Roditi wrote in his essay for the catalog that Ms. Clancy was "one of those few foreigners who have proven to be able to detect, in details of the architecture of Paris and in the life of its various neighborhoods, the social and intellectual evolution of the French capital...(She) might well illustrate some of the beautiful descriptions of Paris of such masters of French prose as Gerard de Nerval, Baudelaire, Jean Lorrain, Leon-Paul Fargue or Louis Aragon."

"Judith Clancy's drawings belong not only to Paris, but to the urban world at large," Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Allan Temko wrote in his essay. "Her swift and incisive pen has the same veracity when she sketches her own city of San Francisco. Yet she brings to Paris a unique sympathy -- already wonderfully subtle and sincere in her book of drawings and collages of the Gare de Lyon and its legendary restaurant (Not a Station But a Place) -- which sets her somewhat apart from other Americans who have brought the city to life in quick-flowing ink. Among the other memories, there are reminiscences of Ludwig Bemelmans, and even more Saul Steinberg. But such remembrance is part of her modern self, true to her vision, true to the city."

$10.00 Quality trade paperback, 72 pages
ISBN 0-912184-06-X

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