Joan Miro: Snail Woman Flower Star - Softcover

Von Wiese, Stephan; Martin, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3791340484 ISBN 13: 9783791340487

Publisher: Prestel, 2008

Synopsis

Tracing Miro' s career, this book begins in the 1920s with the artist's introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, and the flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque and other influential artists and poets. It moves on to his creation of an iconographic pictorial style, which reached maturity in the 1940s and forever distinguished Miro from his contemporaries. Nearly one hundred of his greatest works reproduced in this book display the artistic range of this lyrical painter, whose brilliant use of color, line, and shape resulted in haunting compositions. Fascinating photographs depict the artist at various stages of his life and perceptive essays about his work round out this exciting perspective of the world as portrayed in Miro' s art.

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Tracing Miro' s career, this book begins in the 1920s with the artist's introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, and the flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque and other influential artists and poets. It moves on to his creation of an iconographic pictorial style, which reached maturity in the 1940s and forever distinguished Miro from his contemporaries.

About the Author:

STEPHAN VON WIESE is curator of modern art at the Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf, Germany. SYLVIA MARTIN is an art historian living in Munich, Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3791340484
• ISBN 13: 9783791340487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240