Jan K. Birksted: Modernism and the Mediterranean – The Maeght Foundation (UK; Ashgate). 

I’ve never had any use, as an unashamed philistine, for art museums unless it’s a rainy day and you can get in for nothing. On the other hand, the human stories played out in museums are often fascinating. When I turned to Jan K. Birksted’s book on the Fondation Maeght I was quickly disappointed. The writer, a very solemn (if not gloomy) Dane, has opted for the driest of academic styles with daunting references to other solemn guys like Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. If there’s ever been any hanky-panky in the Miro labyrinth we’re not told about it here. Not a book likely to appeal, I’d say, to the run of Reporter readers.  

From Reporter 109 - June/July 2005

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