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Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937
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: :Taking Joan Miro's notorious declaration of 1927--'I want to assassinate painting'--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miro the 'anti-painter,' identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miro's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miro's return to Realism in 'Still Life with Old Shoe' (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials ...
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NORTHERN LIGHTS: The Sacrifice; A Trip for Mrs Taylor; The Firing Squad; Farewell to Ville Marie; An Open Letter to Husbands; The Gadabouts; The Trail of '48; Private Turvey Becomes Acting Senior Officer; Integrity; Judith Hearne; Grey Owl
»rank: 35695
: :Taking Joan Miro's notorious declaration of 1927--'I want to assassinate painting'--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miro the 'anti-painter,' identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miro's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miro's return to Realism in 'Still Life with Old Shoe' (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials ...
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