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Published in June 1991 by the italian magazine L'Architettura, this essay (in italian and english) was the first text Sciam has put together after four years of study of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie.
Prof. Bruno Zevi (director of L'Architettura) was so enthusiastic about the method Sciam had adopted (a pure visual analysis) that he suggested to title the essay "Saper Vedere Mondrian - How to see Mondrian".
The essay was sent to museums and scholars. Some of them answered promptly. Among those were Michel Seuphor (an artist and poet friend of Mondrian who has been working wiht him in Paris during the 1920'), Giulio Carlo Argan (one of the most important italian art critic and art historian), Joop M. Joosten (co-author - with Robert Welsh - of Mondrian most accurate catalogue raisonneé), Carel Blotkamp (former art professor at Utrecht University), Italo Tomassoni (art critic who wrote himself an essay on Mondrian).
A copy was sent to Mr. Hans Janssen who was working at the Gemeentemuseumin The Hague but no answer ever came.
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