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Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel: Tangled Alphabets

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The work of Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel is wonderful and dynamic. Seeing their detailed and intricate drawings and sculpture is an exciting trip thought their creativity and their visions. Many of their prints are large and engaging. To enjoy the intricacies and delicacies requires you to look carefully and to see BOTH the whole piece before your eyes and to study the details, especially the lines and balance of elements. Much of their sculptures ask the same attention to detail and body.

This book misses all of that in most of the prints and drawings of this style (those that unfortunately appear as mere scribbles) and of the delicate sculpture as well. Yes, there are many examples of the work they did together and separately; but there is no example of their most intricate drawings which allow the viewer/reader to see the details, which are the essence of these works. Prints and drawings are represented in relatively small scale to the page size and there is no attempt by the writer and publisher to show any details in cropped portions that would offer someone a chance to actually imagine what these large pieces look like. They instead appear to be scribbles on paper without the ability to see what is really happening. The drawings which are not of this style are much better represented simply because they are easier to show in book reproduction. But, by leaving out the details of much of their work, readers cannot get a sense of the wonder of their creations.

This book is a great disappointment and does no justice to the quality of the artists' work. For someone unable to see the work in person, it is impossible to understand it from these representations and reproductions.