Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780870707117 ISBN: 0870707116 Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: March 01, 2007 Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Release Date: March 01, 2007 Sales Rank: 695713 Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Product DescriptionThis first U.S. retrospective of the work of Armando Reveron (1899-1954), exhibited this spring at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, introduces the celebrated Latin American artist to an international audience. Well-known in his native Venezuela, but little known outside Latin America, Reveron deserves to be ranked alongside the great early European Modernists. By the 1920s, he had fused post-Impressionistic idioms with an extremely tactile surface and an almost monochromatic palette, creating unmistakably original paintings that are both mysterious and radical. In addition to Reveron's paintings, the exhibition includes life-sized dolls and other objects that he and his partner, Juanita Rios, created to fill their secluded Caribbean home. Reveron's figurative works seem to replicate the perceptual experience of puzzling out forms in shadowy interiors; increasingly over the years, the subjects of these paintings came to be not human beings but his own life-sized dolls. This volume, the first major publication on Reveron in English, features more than 100 paintings, drawings, and objects, accompanied by texts by MoMA curators John Elderfield, Luis Perez-Oramas and Nora Lawrence.
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As far as I can tell this is the only English publication on the life work of Reveron so a review is somewhat redundant, it has no competition and anyone who wants to see this stuff is limited to this book. Having said that it is a brilliant effort and having seen his recent retrospective exhibition in New York at the MOMA I have to say it is a perfect reflection of the paintings and the man.
