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Article: Henri Cartier-Bresson. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 3, 1987
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
There are musical compositions, written, usually, for piano or violin, so difficult of execution that part of what they are about is the extreme dexterity required to perform them. There are others of such oceanic depth that part of what they refer to must be the answering profundity of the artist capable of making it palpable through stirring performance, almost as if the performance were part of the evoked meaning. It is rare that both orders of gift are called upon in any single piece of music, and quite possibly they are antithetical: the set piece for virtuosi celebrates a power so beyond the common measure that its meaning must be ...
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Article: Henri-Cartier Bresson: A Biography.(Book Review)
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... ... accompaniment to the memorable retrospective currently in Edinburgh. Henri Cartier-Bresson can safely be regarded as the greatest photojournalist ... Colette. After a triumphant retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947, he made a 12,000-mile tour up and ...
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