Miro (Taschen 25th Anniversary)
by Walter Erben
from Taschen
Fellow painter Erban spent countless hours conversing with his colleague, Joan Mir (1893-1983), at his house in Mallorca for this book--a retrospective which explores through texts and images the work of one of the 20th century's most influential painters.
Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali
by William H. Robinson
from Yale University Press
With approximately 350 works in a variety of media—painting, sculpture, photography, furniture, decorative arts, and architectural design—this intriguing book also explores how Catalan artists derived inspiration from local traditions while contributing their own innovations to international modernism. Broader in scope than any previous treatment of the subject, this book is sure to alter popular perceptions of Catalonia and become a fundamental text for years to come.
Joan Miro: 1893-1983 (Basic Art)
by Janis Mink
from Taschen
This title in the Modern Masters series focuses on the work of Joan Miro, one of the painters most often associated with surrealism. Miro studied art in his native Barcelona before joining the Paris art scene in the 1920s. Fantasy, dreams, and myths played an important role in Miro's early works, many of which are included in the more than 70 full-color reproductions of paintings, sculptures, and tapestries in this collection. This is a fine introduction to the monumental works of one of the foremost artists of the 20th century.
Miro
by Jacques Dupin
from Flammarion
This classic monograph-featuring 450 color images-spans the entire career of this highly prolific artist, and gives detailed descriptions of the various phases of evolution in his style. First published in 1962 and expanded in 1994, Dupin's informed text is complemented by detailed notes, an extensive bibliography and chronology, and an exhibition history, all of which have been updated for this new edition.
Joan Miro
by Rosa Maria Malet
from Rizzoli
This book showcases the talent and work of one of the great artists of the twentieth century. Born in Spain, Joan Miró was a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. This monograph includes a concise overview of the artist's life and career. This book not only details his pictorial output but also looks at the artist's incursions into areas as diverse as graphic work, ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and theatre.
Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s
by Charles Palermo
from Pennsylvania State University Press
Fixed Ecstasy advances a fundamentally new understanding of Mirò's enterprise in the 1920s and of the most important works of his career. Without a doubt, Joan Mirò (1893-1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in his contributions to Modernist painting. Still, Mirò's work has eluded easy classification. He is best known as a Surrealist, but, as Charles Palermo demonstrates, Mirò's early years in Barcelona and Paris require a revisionist account of Mirò's development and his place in modernism.
Palermo's arguments are based on new research into Mirò's relations with the rue Blomet group of writers and artists, as well as on close readings of the techniques and formal structures of Mirò's early drawings and paintings. Chapter by chapter, Palermo unfolds a narrative that makes a cogent argument for freeing Mirò from longstanding dependence on Surrealism with its strong emphasis on dreams and the unconscious. Mirò, along with associates such as Georges Bataille, Carl Einstein, and Michel Leiris, pressed representation to its limit at the verge of an ecstatic identification with the world.
Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews
by Joan Miro
from Da Capo
Joan Miro (A Museum of Modern Art Book)
by Carolyn Lanchner
from Museum of Modern Art
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