Miró and twentieth-century sculpture
By: Robert Lubar Messeri (ed.).
Contributors: Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain); CaixaForum (Madrid, Spain)
Series: Miró documents; Miró documents
Publisher: Fundació Joan Miró
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9788416411214
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Congresses; Modern Sculpture; Sculpture; Congrès
Notes: Papers from a symposium held at the CaixaForum auditorium, Madrid, April 15-16, 2016. The symposium was held in conjunction with the exhibition "Miró and the object" held at Fundació Joan Miró, October 29, 2015-January 17, 2016 and Caixa Forum, Madrid, February 9-May 22, 2016.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert Lubar Messeri; title: Visual and linguistic metaphors in Miró and Duchamp's sculptures / Julia Domènech; title: The 'personnages' of Miró: entification and sculpture / Thierry Dufrêne; title: 'Tragic and cruel toys': Miró's constructions of 1930 / Elizabeth Cowling; title: Joan Miró and detrital monumentalism in post-war sculpture / Robert Slifkin; title: 'Côté Robinson': Miró, Leiris, Barthes / Briony Fer; title: Modern sculpture in the public sphere: Joan Miró and Eduardo Chillida / Alex Potts; title: Juan Luis Moraza and Perejaume: reading Miró / William Jeffett; title: Things / Juan Luis Moraza; title: Sky and earth / Perejaume.