Miro

by Jacques Lassaigne, Jose Maria Faerna, Paul Éluard

Real seller with inventory on hand. Trade Paperback. Skira, 1969. Very Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows light shelf wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 146 pages in smaller format with a great many full page, full color prints. This biographical and critical study examines the life and artistic development of Catalan surrealist Joan Miro, featuring color plate reproductions of his distinctive abstract paintings, sculptures, and ceramics that blend childlike imagery with sophisticated symbolism, automatic drawing techniques, and his deep connection to Catalan culture and the surrealist movement.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1969

About the author

Jacques Lassaigne (17 December 1911 - 10 February 1983) was a French art historian, an art critic who served as president of the International Association of Art Critics from 1966 to 1969, and a museum curator acting as chief curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 1971 to 1978.

He was a prolific author who wrote numerous volumes of scholarly books on the subject art history, notably in collaboration with the publisher Albert Skira and his publishing house Editions D'Art Albert Skira in the 1950s and 1960s, many of which have been translated into English, Italian, German, and Spanish and published internationally.

Jacques Lassaigne's books and museum exhibitions, with accompanying catalogues and essays, constitute a significant contribution to art history and have consistently been reference and cited by innumerable subsequent researchers and historians for decades.