Article: ART-USA: FERNAND LEGER'S AMERICAN SOJOURN RE-VISITED

Farhan Haq
Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-30-1998
NEW YORK, Apr. 28 (IPS) -- When French painter Fernand Leger
visited New York City in 1930, he wrote back to his friends that
the city's "overloaded spectacle" had driven him "mad with joy."
Now, a New York exhibition recaptures his experience in a survey
of Leger's machine-inspired and yet sensuous work.
The highlight of the Leger exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art,
which lasts until May 12, is in fact the rare sight of the artist's
1940-45 sojourn in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was there that he found
in the United States the sort of passionate relationship between
man and machine that he had explored for nearly 30 years.
"Perhaps the ...

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