Title
Miró / Jacques Dupin ; [translated from the French by James Petterson].
Uniform Title
Miró. English
Edition
English language ed.
ISBN
9782080304506 (hardcover)
208030450X (hardcover)
Imprint
Paris : Flammarion, 2004.
Language
English
Description
479 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Call Number
ND813.M5 D8313 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.6
Summary
"A key figure in XX-century art, Joan Miro has left us a definitive oeuvre which continues to reach an ever increasingly wide public. Ten years after his death, and on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, publication was inevitable of a major monograph on his work." "This book is a partial re-compilation of the analyses contained in the author's first far-reaching study of Joan Miro, which appeared in 1961, now considerably reworked and enriched. It takes into account not only the painter's output during the last two decades of his life, but also a great number of documents discovered after his death - projects, sketchpads, texts, correspondence - to which Jacques Dupin has had access thanks to his privileged relationship with Miro's family, and the studies by art historians and exhibition organizers published over the last twenty years." "Far from limiting his analysis to the painting of Miro, Dupin has gone much further by including the almost infinite universe of curiosities. Thus he examines the artist's experiments in such divers fields as sculpture, lithography, book illustration, ceramics, mural painting, and stage and costume design. A passionate creator in the world of the plastic arts, and an equally passionate lover of the word, of the most audacious poetical games, of objects and of the naked truth of materials, Miro also shone as an oneiric artist, in pursuit of the constellations which inspired some of his finest canvases. All of these fascinating artistic adventures are here narrated with fraternal complicity by Jacques Dupin."--Jacket.
Note
Originally published in French. English language ed. originally published: Barcelona : Poligrafa ; New York : Abrams, 1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-475) and index.
The origins of Miró
Childhood and youth 1893-1915
Catalan fauvism 1915-1917
Detaillist paintings 1918-1920
The farm 1920-1922
The mutation 1923-1924
Oneiric paintings 1925-1927
Landscapes and imaginary portraits Dutch interiors 1926-1929
The assassination of painting 1928-1931
Plastic concentration 1932-1934
Savage paintings 1934-1938
Tragic realism 1937-1938
The sign's crystallization 1938
Varengeville and the constellations 1939-1941
Variations and plenitude 1942-1946
New York and Paris 1947-1951
Expansion 1952-1954
Majorca and the large studio 1956-1966
Japan, round-trips 1966-1974
The final years
Sculpture
Ceramics, monumental art
Graphic work
Painting, poetry.
