Armando Reverón - Hardcover

Elderfield, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870707116 ISBN 13: 9780870707117

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

Synopsis

HardCover Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 240 This 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 celeated 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 shad...

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Product Description:

This book is the first publication in English to examine the work of the celebrated Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón (1889–1954). Published to accompany the major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, it is vibrantly illustrated with Reverón’s highly tactile landscapes and figurative works. John Elderfield introductory essay analyses the artist’s work, while Luiz Pérez- Oramas places the artist in the context of Latin American art history.

Review:

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2/11/07-4/16/07

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0870707116
• ISBN 13: 9780870707117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240