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MoMA Artist Series
Joan Miro
Published to accompany a centennial exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 1993 through early January 1994, this intensively researched volume contains more than 250 full-color reproductions that explore the entire range of the artist's career.
- GenresArt
484 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1993
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February 1, 2015
This is a book that accompanied the retrospective exhibition to celebrated the centennial year of Joan Miró's birth that was held in The Museum Of Modern Art in New York in 1993.
The contents are a Forward, Preface and Acknowledgemnts, Peinture-Poesie, Its Logic and Logistics, Notes to the Text, Plates, Chronology, Apppendix to the Catalogue, Exhibition History, Reference List and Lenders to the Exhibition.
I did not get a chance to see the exhibition myself but was given this book as a present by someone who did attend and thought it was excellent. The coloured plates are of high quality and the Chronology of the artist's life and exhibitions is informative. I was not so keen of Carolyn Lanchner's essay in which I thought went on a bit. It had some interesting information about Miro's note books and the way he worked but on the whole I got bored with it in the end. Maybe if I had attended the retrospective I would see the essay in a different light.
It is a good book that will adorn my coffee table for a while and could be useful for reference to students and art lovers alike. I will end with my favourit quote from the man that all artists will identify with ....
"One must be ready to work amidst total indifference and in the most profound obscurity". - Joan Miró
The contents are a Forward, Preface and Acknowledgemnts, Peinture-Poesie, Its Logic and Logistics, Notes to the Text, Plates, Chronology, Apppendix to the Catalogue, Exhibition History, Reference List and Lenders to the Exhibition.
I did not get a chance to see the exhibition myself but was given this book as a present by someone who did attend and thought it was excellent. The coloured plates are of high quality and the Chronology of the artist's life and exhibitions is informative. I was not so keen of Carolyn Lanchner's essay in which I thought went on a bit. It had some interesting information about Miro's note books and the way he worked but on the whole I got bored with it in the end. Maybe if I had attended the retrospective I would see the essay in a different light.
It is a good book that will adorn my coffee table for a while and could be useful for reference to students and art lovers alike. I will end with my favourit quote from the man that all artists will identify with ....
"One must be ready to work amidst total indifference and in the most profound obscurity". - Joan Miró
April 2, 2015
When I was in high school, I used to draw random, "improv" pictures in art class, claiming that it was 'abstract' just so I could justify my lack of talent. I didn't think my drawing were unique. But then when I discovered this artist who was doing the same exact things, I was flabbergasted: here was a spanish modernist drawer/painter who believed in him self and his work and didn't let the publics naivety burden him. Not quite being up to his level, I now have a direction for where I want my future drawings to go: all thanks to Joan Miro.
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