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Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937»rank: 30798by: Jim Coddington, Robert Lubar, Jordana Mendelson, Adele Nelson, Joan Miro
: :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 ... |
2009 Miró Wall Calendar (Grid Calendar)»rank: 364764by: Joan Miro
: :Miro Wall Calendar: This calendar features a collection of works by MirÓ from the FundaciÓ Joan MirÓ Museum in Barcelona. This museum holds one of the most extensive collections of his works. |
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Joan Miro: 1893-1983 (Basic Series)»rank: 1923796by: Janis Mink, Joan Miro
: :Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the 20th century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. In his travels, Miro encountered the intellectual avant-garde of his time. His friends included Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Andr Masson, Jean Arp and Pablo Picasso. From the mid-twenties onward, Miro strove to leave direct objective references behind and developed the pictograms that typify his style. The pictures of this period, which include perhaps the most beautiful and significant ones of his whole oeuvre, dispense with spatiality and an unambiguous reference to ... |
Joan Miro 1917û1934: I'm Going To Smash Their Guitar»rank: 410656by: Joan Miro, Agnes Angliviel De La Beaumelle
: :Miro's art has been seen as innocent and child-like, but one should dubt the innocence, or see the child in quite brutal Freudian terms. This study of the crucial formative period of Miro's art—from 1917 to 1934, from his first emergence in the avantgarde of Barcelona and Paris to his acclaim by the Surrealists and the generality of critics as a modern master—concentrates on the sometimes painful, sometimes ecstatic processes of his early development, working either in Paris or in seclusion at his farm in Montroig in Catalonia. Almost as ascetic as Mondrian, Miro drew deep on his own inner life in perfecting his imagery, which was both controlled and ... |
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Drawing From The Modern»rank: 1102668by: Andre Breton, Paul Gauguin, Georges Bataille, Jodi Hauptman, Hans Bellmer, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, Robert Delaunay, Andre Derain, Arthur Dove, Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter, Arshile Gorky, Juan Gris, Gustav Klimt, Wilfredo Lam, Filippo Marinetti, Joan Miro
: :Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. Drawing from the Modern traces such groundbreaking innovation through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Drawing has historically been understood as a mark or line on paper--the record of a bodily gesture, an inscription of the action of the hand, an expression of the mind. Since the 1880s, however, artists have sought to interrupt these seemingly unbreakable links ... |
André Breton: Surrealism and Painting»rank: 194533by: Andre Breton, Alain Masson, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, André Breton
: :Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the suject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Andra Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic Surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to 'refer to a purely internal model.' Also included are essays--many of them classics in their own right--on Picasso, Duchamp, Kahlo, Dal', Ernst, Masson, Gorky, Picabia, MirA, Magritte, Kandinsky, and others, as ... |
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Miro Lithographs (Dover Art Library)»rank: 666579by: Joan Miro
: :Forty important lithographic prints with line and composition comparable to Miro's friend Picasso. Eerie, droll, technically brilliant, and aggressive. |
Joan Miro (Museum of Modern Art)»rank: 595634by: Carolyn Lanchner, Joan Miro
: :Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color and accompanied by informative and accessible short essays that provide background on the artworks and on the artist himself, illuminating technique, style, subject matter and significance. Written by Carolyn Lanchner, former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum, these ... |
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Joan Miro: A Retrospective»rank: 4813377by: Joan Miro
: :Published to accompany a centennial exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 1993 through early January 1994, this intensively researched volume contains more than 250 full-color reproductions that explore the entire range of the artist's career. |
Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews»rank: 807038by: Joan Miro, Margit Rowell
: :For nearly seven decades the ebullient art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramist and mythmaker, has intrigued and enchanted art lovers worldwide. This collection of his writings presents a portrait of the artist in his own words. Miro's notebooks, letters, and interviews reveal the work and life of a brilliant artist revered for his uncanny expression of the subconscious. 'Joan Miro' centres on Paris during the vibrant era between the wars, when Miro became the intimate of almost everyone in that scene - boxing with young Hemingway, working with Max Ernst on the Ballets Russes, drinking, painting and arguing with Picasso, Braque, Dubuffet, Matisse, Breton and many others. ... |