Miro's Dream
by E.J. Gold & Iven Lourie
BK022
$16.95
Drawings by E.J. Gold, poetry by Iven Lourie (commentaries by Linda Corriveau). In the French art-book tradition, poetry and drawings on facing pages. A delightful and instructive book.
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From the Introduction
At first glance, Miro’s Dream appears to be an amusing book, but upon closer examination, its real nature becomes evident. This book is provocative in the sense that it is insidious; we may begin by being charmed but then, slowly but surely, we find ourselves unexpectedly ensnared, entrapped by the insinuating ambivalence of the images, and their depth.
We will want to see more, to discover where these intriguing little characters will take us, feeling perhaps not so very removed from Alice following the White Rabbit.
We find ourselves—like Alice—intruding into unwelcome spaces, asking impertinent questions, misunderstanding what we see and hear, accidentally opening doors to worlds which have nothing in common with ours, like the French cartoon character, Philemon, who need only go through his back door, step into an elevator, open a box of cereal, or perform some apparently insignificant action to unaccountably propel himself into another dimension he never even knew existed, where all sorts of incredible things happen, where the fantastic is lord and master, but mostly where humans have no place and are not known.