There Was a Peacock: The Drawings of Juan Ezekiel Fontana (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780990859758)

Juan Ezekiel Fontana (1930-2018) was a Mexican journalist who covered some of the twentieth century's most tragic events, notably the French-Algerian War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He produced, along the way, many hundreds of small drawings in sketchbooks of varied sizes. In 2017, the American memoirist and poet, Harvey Mudd, was invited to help Fontana curate his drawings for the purpose of creating an album for Fontana's daughter. This volume contains Mudd's journal describing his work with Fontana. Mudd came away convinced that the drawings were more than just evidence of Fontana's eccentricity. Phillipe (Fripon) de St. Cloud, the art historian who prepared this catalogue raisonn, had this to say about Fontana's work:

Author: Harvey Mudd
ISBN-10: 0990859754
ISBN-13: 9780990859758
Publisher: Porcupine Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2019
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 1.00d