Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
“A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art…makes a spirited attempt to find and explore the politics.” (Los Angeles Times)“Through the critical writing…[Miró] emerges as a consistently moral force…what speaks loudest is the portrait of Miró as an artist as committed to liberty and social transformation as to art itself.” (Publishers Weekly)“The National Gallery’s Miro exhibit is an artist’s astonishing chronological journey through the major movements of modern art.” (The Washington Times)“Sometimes an art exhibit comes along that is so stunning it becomes a travel destination. Such isJoan Miró: The Ladder of Escapeat the National Gallery of Art.” (Chicago Examiner)“Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escapeis a beautiful book, and its essays are both informative and thought-provoking….” (International Sculpture Center Book Reviews)“To say that the show is grand in scale—with pieces dating from 1918 to 1974—is an understatement…” (The Washingtonian)“The exhibition’s layout, together with the accompanying scholarly catalog, enables one to begin to understand Miró’s progression from an art of detailed realism…through a later phase of expressionistic and Fauve-like paintings, and then into a burst of surrealistic excess…” (The InTowner)“An illustrated retrospective survey focuses on Miró’s politically engaged art.” (Publishers Weekly)