Mrs. Ingram and Celyn Brazier’s “Munch is Missing” is a total delight, a veritable banquet. The work involved in creating these books is mind-blowing.
Commissioned by the MUNCH Museum in Oslo, Catherine went to exhaustive ends researching Munch and the cosmos which has woven itself around his art and ideas; even traveling to Norway to trace the artist’s steps.
She painstakingly devised these concepts and blocked out these layouts, which Brazier has rendered into exquisite and iridescent dioramas.
There’s way too much to mention, but I have a personal attachment to “Munch’s Garden.” Munch grew his own vegetables and canvassed for people to eat more veg.
Here at the first page is macrobiotic pioneer George Ohsawa eating a bowl of brown rice sitting atop a mushroom; beside him is vegetarian Sun Ra. There’s Paul and Linda with a friendly ram. Look at vitalist philosopher Henri Bergson… and attending one of Bergson’s lectures, George Bernard Shaw accompanied by one of the ladies with fruit laden hats who flocked to hear the great French philosopher.
There’s vegetarian Philip Glass, Chuck Close’s portrait of him in the style of Arcimboldo. Jane Goodall and Nico in a bananadrama. And Mahatma Gandhi!
And who is that hiding naked in the bushes?
