For nearly seven decades the ebullient art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramist and mythmaker, has intrigued and enchanted art lovers worldwide. This collection of his writings presents a portrait of the artist in his own words. Miro's notebooks, letters, and interviews reveal the work and life of a brilliant artist revered for his uncanny expression of the subconscious.

Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews

Arts & Photography

Margit Rowell

paul-auster

Joan Miró

History & Criticism

Da Capo Press

Miró

Harry N. Abrams

Published to accompany a major exhibition opening in May 1997 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this first in-depth study of the still life as interpreted and transformed by avant-garde artists of the 20th century traces a radical rethinking of the genre in terms of subject matter and formal invention. 190 illustrations, 150 in color.

Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life

Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper, 1963-1974 accompanies the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of drawings, watercolors, and gouaches by this famous German painter. Polke's works on paper are beautiful and funny with strong tinges of emotion. Potato Heads: Nixon and Khrushchev, from 1965, is a colorful watercolor line drawing of two world leaders with bulbous heads and green polka dots. His almost-comic-book style can be both sweet, as in Young Peas, an image from 1963 with quickly drawn circles, and unnerving--an untitled gouache from 1965 depicts a ghostly figure and a swastika. Polke was born at the end of WWII and came of artistic age at a time when Germany was undergoing major cultural changes. It was during this period of the 1960s that abstract expressionism was taking over the art scene, yet Polke was committing himself to "an idiom that was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, its content seemingly trivial, and its social message obvious although ambivalent." His drawings from this era highlight his interests in culture, politics, and urban life more obviously than his later paintings, photographs, and screen printings. Also included in the catalog are images from Polke's sketchbook and essays by Michael Semff, Bice Curiger, and Margit Rowell. This book is a wonderful opportunity to explore Polke's early art, and it marks the first time that his works on paper have been shown together. --Jennifer Cohen 200 pages, 326 illustrations including 299 in color.

Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974

Bice Curiger

Michael Semff

Museum of Modern Art

Russian avant-garde books made between 1910 and 1934 reflect a vivid and tumultuous period in that nation's history that had ramifications for art, society, and politics. The early books, with their variously sized pages of coarse paper, illustrations entwined with printed, hand-written, and stamped texts, and provocative covers, were intended to shock academic conventions and bourgeois sensibilities. After the 1917 Revolution, books appeared with optimistic designs and photomontage meant to reach the masses and symbolize a rational, machine-led future. Later books showcased modern Soviet architecture and industry in the service of the government's agenda. Major artists adopted the book format during these two decades. They include Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, the Stenberg brothers, Varvara Stepanova, and others. These artists often collaborated with poets, who created their own transrational language to accompany the imaginative illustrations. Three major artistic movements, Futurism, Suprematism, and Constructivism, that developed during this period in painting and sculpture also found their echo in the book format. This publication accompanied an exhibition of Russian avant-garde books at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. All of the books in the exhibition and this publication are part of a gift to the Museum from The Judith Rothschild Foundation.

The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934

Deborah Wye

Nina Gurianova

Gerald Janecek

Various, Authors

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Modern Still Life

Ad Reinhardt and color

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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