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The next volume in the striking collection in co-publication with the Louvre museum. An art assessor must evaluate the vast collections of the Louvre in an alternate Kafkaesque world where all is warehoused in an endless ever deepening succession of basement levels. Mathieu, an artist who marries Escher with Kafka, brings stinging irony to the pompousness of art history.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Museum Vaults is an intriguing proposition for a graphic novel, providing a tour through the fantastic (and presumably imaginary) subbasements of the Musee du Louvre in Paris. The journey through the endless basement galleries and workshops provides an interesting mirror both of the Louvre itself and of art history, criticism, and the entire curatorial practice and profession. The striking four-color artwork greatly outweighs the rather enigmatic plot, which perhaps echoes works by Borges and Kafka a bit too much for its own good. Nonetheless, the The Museum Vaults is inventive and makes for great eye candy, so it's most certainly worth a read.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5An expert has come to a large museum to evaluate its collection. He starts to descend into its basement, reaching absurdly deep levels full of bizarre departments and strange employees in what seems an increasingly futile attempt to visit every corner of the labyrinthine structure. It wants to be humorous, but aside from a section about the "Mona Lisa's" smile, it is simply too nonsensical for me. Bah!
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