Volume 43, Number 8 · May 9, 1996
The Secrets of Maillol
By James Fenton
Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol 59-61 Rue de Grenelle, Paris (inaugurated January 1995). Catalog of the museum
141 pp., 190 FF
Aristide Maillol an exhibition at the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, January 14–May 5, 1996; continuing on to Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, May 15–September 22; Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, October 6–January 13, 1997; and Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, January 25–March 31, 1997. Catalog of the exhibition
edited by Ursel Berger, edited by Jörg Zutter
Prestel, 232 pp., $80.00
Aristide Maillol
by Bertrand Lorquin
Skira/Thames and Hudson, 199 pp., $40.00
A pyramid can be a cruelly deceptive thing—a promise of immortality, a pledge of permanence, an earnest of fame. I.M. Pei's pyramid—with its three subsidiary pyramids and its flat-based, triangular, minimalist fountains—may have solved for a generation or so the question of what to put at the heart of the Louvre, how to fill the Cour Napoléon. But nobody who has glanced at the history of this space can possibly feel that this solution will last forever, or even for very long. To believe this would be to subscribe to some theory of the death of the history of taste.
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