08 T/01 José Muñoz L’Arte della Necessità
€ 35,00
2003
24.5 x 31 cm
40 color pages, paperback, 400g black black cardboard cover with green color screen printed dust jacket.
Book illustrated with in white ink dedicated to the “city”. “The imagined city can only be Buenos Aires”, is the introduction to the book by Goffredo Fofi.
Between the reading of a Borges, hypercultured and at the same time so deeply rooted, and in the search for a reconciliation between the all-city of Arlt and the all-countryside of Güiraldes, between the last Indians and the Italians and Spaniards of the latest European immigration levers .
[quote] José Muñoz has chosen to live in Europe, but he will never be able to break free from his porteños ties – as it was for Cortázar or Puig, other presences and influences. His Alack Sinner can never really be a Yankee, but he is American, with full rights, according to the “classic noir” imagery of Hammett, Chandler, Bogart and Dick Tracy and according to his real Argentine foundations. Perhaps one cannot understand the peculiar blend of melancholy and irony of Muñoz’s beautiful drawings without this background and without the ideal musical accompaniment of the bandoneón: of “un pensamiento triste que se bailaba”. Goffredo Fofi [/ quote]
