Joan Miro. 1917-1934.
Pompidou Center| N° d'inventaire | 18270 |
| Format | 28 x 28 |
| Détails | color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2004 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
This book, published on the occasion of the first major exhibition devoted to Miro since 1974 in Paris, is the first to focus on the fundamental years of his work, those of the invention of his pictorial language, of his most enigmatic masterpieces, often little known in France. The light is shed on the springs of a creation developed in a permanent and fertile back-and-forth between the Catalan land of Montroig and the literary and artistic circles of Paris, which Joan Miro discovered in 1920. It gives a true portrait of this fiercely independent man, slayer of conventions, zigzagging between surrealism and abstraction, and always in search of a poetic absolute. Art lovers and historians can find something to question, along new axes, the extraordinary complexity of Miro in these twenties and thirties of intensive production: work on the "background", phantom figure, modulation of colors, collages - assemblages, use of base materials, etc. They can penetrate this deeply hallucinatory pictorial vision - and unique in its time -, whose energy - destructive, reconstructive - comes from this return "to the origins" which fascinates so much today. A amply documented chronology of the period allows us to follow not only the rhythm of Miro's production, but also his "critical" reception and the links which united the painter to his dealers or to his poet or artist friends.
This book, published on the occasion of the first major exhibition devoted to Miro since 1974 in Paris, is the first to focus on the fundamental years of his work, those of the invention of his pictorial language, of his most enigmatic masterpieces, often little known in France. The light is shed on the springs of a creation developed in a permanent and fertile back-and-forth between the Catalan land of Montroig and the literary and artistic circles of Paris, which Joan Miro discovered in 1920. It gives a true portrait of this fiercely independent man, slayer of conventions, zigzagging between surrealism and abstraction, and always in search of a poetic absolute. Art lovers and historians can find something to question, along new axes, the extraordinary complexity of Miro in these twenties and thirties of intensive production: work on the "background", phantom figure, modulation of colors, collages - assemblages, use of base materials, etc. They can penetrate this deeply hallucinatory pictorial vision - and unique in its time -, whose energy - destructive, reconstructive - comes from this return "to the origins" which fascinates so much today. A amply documented chronology of the period allows us to follow not only the rhythm of Miro's production, but also his "critical" reception and the links which united the painter to his dealers or to his poet or artist friends.