Mir? - The Experience of Seeing?late Works, 1963?1981

"This groundbreaking publication offers a reassessment of renowned modernist Joan Mirâo's late-career works, created between 1963 and 1981. This body of work, almost entirely unknown in the United States, showcases Mirâo's exceptional ingenuity as both apainter and sculptor. Mirâo: The Experience of Seeing includes color illustrations of nearly 50 paintings, drawings, and sculptures that show the breadth and contrast of this body of work-from bold, colorful canvases with expressive gestures to the mostminimal calligraphic markings on white fields. His sculptures made of found objects are a revelation. Comparisons between paintings and sculptures highlight startling connections between shapes and symbols that Mirâo; used in each medium. These mature works represent the culmination of the artist's development of an innovative and personal visual language. Engaging texts, including a contribution by noted Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella, explain Mirâo's role as a political figure and his quest to speakabout the most intangible subjects through the materiality of objects and the painted gesture. This important new examination of Mirâo's later work allows for a richer, deeper understanding of this significant modern artist's distinguished career"--

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• Authors: Carmen Fernandez Aparicio, Carmen Fernandez Palermo Aparicio, Jesus Carrillo, Carmen Fernandez Aparicio, Carmen Palermo Fernandez Aparicio, Carmen Fernández Aparicio, Belen Galan Martin, Charles Palermo, Pere Portabella
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780300204797
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20479-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Seattle Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum (Yale)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques