IN THE STREAM OF STARS: The Soviet/American...

IN THE STREAM OF STARS: The Soviet/American Space Art Book, edited by William K. Hartmann, Andrei Sokolov, Ron Miller and Vitaly Myagkov (Workman: $19.95). This opulent anthology of work by artists from the two space powers recaptures the excitement of the 1960s, when the Apollo missions seemed to promise new and greater adventures that would unify mankind through the sheer scale of the challenge they represented. The paintings by the American artists almost invariably stress precise, photographic realism, while the Soviet painters invoke mystic, semi-abstract imagery.