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There Was a Peacock: The Drawings of Juan Ezekiel Fontana - Couverture souple

Mudd, Harvey

 
9780990859758: There Was a Peacock: The Drawings of Juan Ezekiel Fontana
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0990859754 ISBN 13 : 9780990859758
Editeur : Porcupine Press, 2019

Synopsis

Juan Ezekiel Fontana (1930-2018) was a Mexican journalist who covered some of the twentieth century's most tragic events, notably the French-Algerian War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He produced, along the way, many hundreds of small drawings in sketchbooks of varied sizes. In 2017, the American memoirist and poet, Harvey Mudd, was invited to help Fontana curate his drawings for the purpose of creating an album for Fontana's daughter. This volume contains Mudd's journal describing his work with Fontana. Mudd came away convinced that the drawings were more than just evidence of Fontana's eccentricity. Phillipe (Fripon) de St. Cloud, the art historian who prepared this catalogue raisonn, had this to say about Fontana's work:

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Éditeur
Porcupine Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0990859754
ISBN 13 
9780990859758
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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