"Faber and Faber ...are the sponsors of an experiment called "UNCLE
ANTY'S ALBUM" in which sophisticated adults will take much delight and
by which children, we fear, be either bored or baffled. The album consists
of about two dozen full-page photographic illustrations, mostly of dolls
poised against backgrounds with a touch of surrealism to them. One
innocent wax creature stands against a spotted canvas background picked
out with large hairpin, pins and buttons, and is unfairly titled Bad Little
Girl. There are dolls - foreign, china, wooden and paper. There is
a first-rate picture of a clown. But what will children make of the shadowy
dimness of Poor Little Girl or Electrical Lady ? For them, in these cases,
the imagination and ingenuity are likely to be misplaced. The author-artists
are DIANA ROSS and ANTHONY DENNEY and the price is 5s.
