A selection of the paintings and drawings of Joan Miro is accompanied by a survey of his career and analyses of his work

Joan Miro: A Retrospective

Arts & Photography

MIRÓ, JOAN

Individual Artists

Yale Univ Pr

Macdonald. London. 1986. 27x27 cm. 172 p. il. col. y n. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Català-Roca, Francesc 1922-1998. Text by Lluís Permanyer. Artes Gráf. Toledo. Miró, Joan. 1893-1983. Permanyer, Lluís. 1939-. Idioma inglés .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. Sobrecubierta deslucida. ISBN: 0-356-12455-X

Miró: Ninety years

Catala-Roca, Francesco

Permanyer, L.

Macdonald, U.S.A.

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

Joan Miro (The Museum of Modern Art Publications in Reprint)

Soby, James

Ayer Co. Pub

"As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche." — Miró Miró's line recalls Picasso's in clarity and power; the Catalan's "plastic aggressiveness" led him, as it did his Andalusian friend, to bold, successful experiment and innovation in ceramics, sculpture and printmaking, especially lithography. The lithographic print medium suited and encouraged the artist's lifelong, often radical, obsession with stripping art to the marrow. The 40 plates reproduced here sample the pith of his lithographic production — a series produced in 1944, full of the eerie images and droll distortion he had sought on canvas for decades. "It's never easy for me to talk about my painting," wrote Miró, "since it is always born in a state of hallucination induced by some kind of shock, objective or subjective, for which I am not personally responsible in the least." Miró hallucinates on stone for these prints, filling them with monstrous beasts and one-eyed aliens adrift in a heaven of moons and stars and black nebulae, floating breasts and generative organs. These lithographs were executed shortly after finishing the famous "constellation" series of paintings (called by one critic "the most intricate, most elaborately developed of all Miró's compositions"), right around the time his mother died and he fired his first ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. Falling in a period of intense creative mingling of whimsy with the grotesque, these prints characterize an important juncture in Miró's career. They also enlarge the boundaries of lithographic technique as they simultaneously show Miró, now "stripped" of his brilliant colors, to be an equal master of black-and-white.

Miró Lithographs (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Dover Publications

Book by Mirbo, Joan, Miro, Joan, Apollonio, Umbro

Miro: The Life and Work of the Artist (Translated from the Italian by Victor Cortil)

Apollonio, Umbro

Mirbo, Joan

Thames&Hudson

Miró

Bucci, Mario

Biographies & Memoirs

Hamlyn

Classmates discuss the life and painting of Joan Miro, who was born in Barcelona

Miro: Earth and Sky (Art for Children)

Blanquet, Claire-Helene

Children's Books

Chelsea House Pub

Joan Miro (1893-1983) was a key figure in twentieth-century art, and one of the most engaging artists of our time. He left behind a remarkable legacy, a body of work that continues to reach an increasingly wide public today. Now, some ten years after his death, and to mark the centenary of his birth, this sumptuously illustrated volume offers new information and insights into Miro's long and extremely productive career. Author Jacques Dupin has considerably revised and enriched his original far-reaching study of Joan Miro, published by Abrams in 1962. He has taken into account not only the painter's output during the last two decades of his life, but also a great number of documents discovered after his death - projects, sketchbooks, texts, poems, correspondence (to which Dupin had privileged access through his relationship with Miro's family) - as well as studies by art historians and curators that have appeared over the last twenty years. Far from limiting his analysis to the artist's painting, Dupin has explored the almost infinite universe of Miro's imagination. Thus he surveys the artist's experiments in such diverse fields as sculpture, lithography, book illustration, ceramics, mural painting, and stage and costume design. A passionate creator in the world of the plastic arts, and an equally passionate lover of words, of the most audacious poetical games, Miro was an artist of the subconscious, constantly in pursuit of the dreams which inspired some of his finest canvases. Nearly 500 illustrations, 200 in full color, reproduce works from every phase of Miro's career. An illustrated chronology, an extensive bibliography, and a list of exhibitions add to the value of this superb volume, an indispensable addition to the literature on modern art.

Miro

Dupin, Jacques

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Featuring more than seventy illustrations of the artist's most important works, an expensive survey of Miro's career traces the development of his abstract, surrealist style and his monumental, public paintings of the forties and fifties.

Miro (Great Modern Masters)

History & Criticism

Abradale/Abrams

Over-sized soft cover book titled JOAN MIRO: A Retrospective. Published in 1987 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Yale University Press. Beautifully illustrated with color and black and white reproductions. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-D-2) rareviewbooks

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Joan Miro: A Retrospective

Miró: Ninety years

Joan Miro (The Museum of Modern Art Publications in Reprint)

Miró Lithographs (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Miro: The Life and Work of the Artist (Translated from the Italian by Victor Cortil)

Miró

Miro: Earth and Sky (Art for Children)

Miro

Miro (Great Modern Masters)

Joan Miro: A Retrospective