Miró

A new edition of this classic illustrated survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist Joan Miró by historian and close friend Roland Penrose. Among the great twentieth-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Miró stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Author and artist Roland Penrose, a friend of Miró s for almost five decades, discusses Miró s art through its many phases. Penrose also examines its major features * the birth of his signs and symbols; * his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s; * his lyrical, poetic gouaches; * his monumental sculptures and ceramics; * his unprecedented use of poetic titles; * and his attachment to nature and the night. A brief epilogue by Eduardo de Benito, London correspondent of the Spanish art periodical Lápiz, illustrates the developments of Miró s last years. This new revised edition, now illustrated in color throughout, includes a foreword by Antony Penrose, Roland s son, outlining the relationship between his father and the artist, as well as updates to the bibliography. 144 color illustrations