$25.49
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2022
Summary
A new edition of this classic survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist, Joan Miró, by his close friend, historian and fellow artist Roland Penrose.
Among the great 20th-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Miró stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Miró’s art went through many phases, and its major features - his signs and symbols, his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s, his lyrical, poetic gouac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500204795 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500204799 |
| Author: | Roland Penrose |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 210mm |
| Series: | World of Art |
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Critics Review
‘An outstandingly good book. It is easy to read, covers all periods of Miró’s life and work and gives a valuable insight into the artist’s thoughts and opinions’ - Apollo
‘Brings the subject right up to date and is characteristically easy and discursive in tone’ - Sunday Times
‘Could hardly be bettered … adds enormously to our appreciation and understanding of the artists’ - Country Life
Roland Penrose
Sir Roland Penrose (1900-1984) was one of the founders of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, of which for many years he was President. He also served on the British Council and the Arts Council, and as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery. Roland Penrose’s publications include Picasso: His Life and Work, Man Ray, Tàpies and Scrapbook 1900-1981.
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