Joan Miró
Subtitle: snail woman flower star
By: edited by Stephan von Wiese and Sylvia Martin ; with essays by Victoria Combalía ... [et al.] ; photographs by Joaquim Gomis ; and a foreword by Jean-Hubert Martin.
Contributors: Wiese, Stephan von.; Martin, Sylvia, 1964-; Combalía Dexeus, Victoria, 1952-; Gomis, Joaquim, 1902-1991.; Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Miró, Joan, 1893- -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "This book takes the reader on a journey through Joan Miro's world of images. It includes work from all phases of the artist's career, from the early paintings in the style of poetic realism, via the playfully lyrical pictures of the 1920s and 1930s, to the colourful works of his later years. Stages in the journey are marked by photographs taken at the time by Miro's fellow Catalan Joaquim Gomis, which evoke the artist's world in a series of compelling images."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-233).
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Joan Miró: Snail, Woman, Flower, Star" held from 13 July to 6 October 2002 at the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf"--Colophon.
Table of contents: title: Joaquim Gomis and the 'atmosfera Miró'; title: Miró's strategies : rebellious in Barcelona, reticent in Paris / Victoria Combalía; title: Painting as universal poetry : the connection between picture and word in Miró / Stephan von Wiese; title: On the readability of signs : Miró's path from mysterious to comic pictorial signs in the 1920s and 1930s / Sylvia Martin; title: From the playful to a denunciation of violence : Miró's deformations of the 1920s and 1930s / Christa Lichtenstern; title: The 'Barcelona' series : fifty lithographs, 1939-1944; title: A labyrinth by Joan Miró / Antje von Graevenitz.