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by Viggo Mortensen
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Author: Viggo MortensenIntroduction: Dennnis Hopper
Contributor: Kristine McKenna
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-12
ISBN: 1889195324
Number of pages: 110
Publisher: Smart Art Press
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Book Review: Aragorn Fans Beware
Summary: 4 Stars
Those who are buying this book because they want to get more of that feeling they had watching Viggo Mortensen be noble in leather with a really long sword in the Lord of the Rings may very well be completely mystified by their purchase. Mortensen's own art is subtle, even a bit secretive, and does not necessarily repay a casual viewer with much. His photography, which I think is the most skillful and evolved of the artforms offered here, is of banal suburban objects and situations, imbued with a poignant irony. The eye of the photographer is compassionate, hopeful, often wincing but determined to see, not what is beautiful, but what is. All the photographs seem to say: we are surrounded by this, all the time.Mortensen of course has a wonderful speaking voice, and hearing him read his small quiet ironic prose poems brings them to life. They resemble his photographs, deliberately captured moments carefully framed but never explained; they have to be their own explanation. He cannot sing, however. Oh well. And his paintings are not very accessible to me as yet. Some of this might be because these large paintings translate poorly to a small book format; also it is a relatively new medium for him. I continue to look at them, as it took me a while to appreciate the photographs. Viggo Mortensen always inspires me to want to make things myself, take risks, be obsessive and observant and vulnerable, as he is. Really, you can't do better than that.
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