Guggenheim Museum Collection A to Z

Page 261 of Guggenheim Museum Collection A to Z contains "Nude" (1917) by Amedeo Mondigliani, born in 1884, 100 years before #EmersonMiranda was born. #goliwaliwph #october2018 #pages #inmemoriam pic.twitter.com/K2mhhUNlsI

— glenncruz (@glenncruz) October 22, 2018

This month, liwaliw Pages shares space with books selected from my personal library's "pride of place," namely those I received as gifts (or pasalubong) from my BFF Emerson Miranda, who was born on July 13, 1984, and passed away only last September 28, 2018. He was 34 years old.

"Nude (1917)" is by Amedeo Mondigliani, who was born in 1884, a hundred years before Eon was born. "Modi," the artist's nickname rhymes with maudit, French for "accursed": in his time, his nudes were criticized as pornographic, partly due to leading a lifestyle of alleged sexual excess; the mother of his second child committed suicide after giving birth; his hard life mixed with substance abuse was ended by tuberculosis.

The work, which is one from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, is featured on page 261 of the Guggenheim Museum Collection A to Z, with a quote from the Mondigliani, "What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the Subconscious, the mystery of what is Instinctive in the human race."

Coincidentally, the month of October is also Museums and Galleries Month, pursuant to Proclamation No. 798 series of 1991.


[This post is antedated: 20181022]