Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays
"The rapid technological progress made during the twentieth century has led to an ever increasing specialization in many different professions. This phenomenon, however, does not seem to have affected the world of art in any radical fashion. Joan Miró is possibly the leading exponent of that way of working that is closer I spirit to the context of the Renaissance--when an artist might find himself painting an Annunciation one day and designing a project for the building of new walls for his city the next--than to the atomic age. This is not a question of any kind of anachronism, but the logical consequence of two factors: on the one hand, his family heritage and, on the other, his eternally restless character that led him to investigate all the possibilities to be found in materials, forms and colors; and that is why Joan Miró's work includes the most widely-varying fields: painting, sculpture, graphic work, tapestry, ceramics and theatre." Rosa Maria Malet, excerpt from her text to Joan Miró.
Edited by Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Foreword by Joan Punyet Miró, Staffan Ahrenberg, Rémi Labrusse. Text by Ernest Hemingway, Juan Larrea, Dora Vallier, Jean-Louis Cohen, Rémi Labrusse, et al.
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Published by Ridinghouse/Luxembourg + Co., London. Preface by Jean-Louis Prat. Text by Eric Robertson, Joan Miró.
This volume explores the early work of Joan Miró (1893–1983) from the 1920s and 1930s, a period when the artist formed the core visual lexicon that would come to occupy him throughout his entire career. Published for an exhibition at Luxembourg + Co., New York, the book follows a new proposition outlined by Eric Robertson, who suggests that the key to Miró’s work from these years begins with his fascination with ground—both as a subject connected to his Catalan roots and as a technical interest in constructing the background of his pictorial universe using monochromatic, uneven surfaces. It is from the ground, explains Robertson, that the formal language developed by Miró during these years emerges as a unique symbolic vocabulary, incorporating a host of biomorphic forms such as body shapes, eyes, feet and male and female genitalia, as well as signs like stars, flowers, grids, letters and numbers.
Published by La Fábrica. Introduction by Joan Punyet Miró. Text by Francisco Copado, Robert Lubar Messer, Enric Juncosa Darder.
Miró: Round Trip presents late works created by the artist (1893–1983) during his years in Mallorca. Miró settled in Mallorca in 1956 and remained there until his death in 1983. The move to Mallorca from Barcelona brought new energy to Miró’s work; he described the island as feeling “as fresh as if the world had just been created.”
Published to accompany an exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca on the site of Miró’s studio, this volume brings together a rare selection of Miró’s late works, some of which have never before been published. The 95 works included in this publication left Miró’s Mallorca studio in the 1960s and 1970s, and now at long last have made a “round trip” back to the place where they were conceived.
Published by Cahiers d'Art. Edited by Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Foreword by Joan Punyet Miró, Staffan Ahrenberg, Rémi Labrusse. Text by Ernest Hemingway, Juan Larrea, Dora Vallier, Jean-Louis Cohen, Rémi Labrusse, et al.
The 2018 Cahiers d’Art revue revisits Miró’s works and relationship between Miró and Cahiers d’Art through an anthology of the most beautiful texts published in the revue. It also introduces unpublished objects and pieces from the artist’s collection. The stencil Miró made for the No. 1-4 of the 1936 revue is silkscreened as this revue’s cover. The issue also includes an interview with Staffan Ahrenberg and Miquel Barceló, and works by Helen Marten, Koo Jong A and Karel Malich.
Anchored in the beauty of the Catalan land and in the primitive power of objects, Miró's works unfold their magical dimension alongside movements and theories. The art critic and founder of Cahiers d'Art, Christian Zervos never stopped following and defending the work of this unclassifiable artist, "the most lyrical painter of his time" and "the most important post cubist artist". Miró is indeed present in Cahiers d'Art from the first year of its existence, 1926, utill the last, 1960. He drew many covers and his famous stencil "Help Spain!” (Aidez l’Espagne!) was published in the No. 4-5 of the 1937 issue of the Cahiers d’Art revue.
This issue of the new revue, under the direction of Rémi Labrusse, revisits the relationship between Miró and Cahiers d'Art through an anthology of the most beautiful texts published in the revue. It also provides insight into the great originality of Miró's primitivism and a discovery of two collections of the artist: the objects that filled his studio, and the unpublished paintings that he added into certain books in his library. An essay by Élisa Sclaunick is dedicated to Miró's unpublished correspondence with writer Jacques Dupin. A text by Jean-Louis Cohen pays tribute to the architect José-Luis Sert who created the buildings of the Palma studio and the Barcelona Foundation, while Rosa Maria Mallet returns to the history of the Miró Foundation.
Lastly, four artists complete the revue with a contemporary counterpoint: the Spanish Miquel Barceló, the English Helen Marten, the South Korean Koo Jong A and the Czech Karel Malich.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Text by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Text by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Text by Joan Gardy Artigas, Joan Punyet Miró.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this catalogue raisonné of Miró's work was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. This volume catalogues the entirety of the artist's well-known output in ceramics. Each work is accompanied by its title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as its collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which it is reproduced.
Published by Polígrafa/Lelong. Edited by Emilio Fernández Miró, Pilar Ortega Chapel.
Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume catalogue raisonné of Miró's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Miró Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Miró. The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced.
Published by Ediciones Polígrafa. Text by Jacques Dupin. Translation by Paul Auster.
French father of Surrealism André Breton called Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) "the most Surrealist of us all," while Miró himself infamously called for "the assassination of painting." Particularly between 1927 and 1937, transformative years during his very long career, Miró worked to both attack and reinvigorate painting. Though he maintained his freedom, experimenting with other movements such as Expressionism and Color Field painting and never truly becoming a member of the Surrealist group, Miró was among the first to incorporate automatic drawing into his practice. He left behind a distinctive body of mixed-media work--including paintings, murals, sculptures, mosaics and ceramics--whose influence has only continued to grow. This fully illustrated publication, with an essay by leading Miró scholar Jacques Dupin, reveals new aspects of the artist's life and work. Joan Miró was born in 1893 in Barcelona. After his first trip to Paris in 1920, and through 1931, Miró generally spent half of each year in the French capital and half in his native Catalonia, returning to live in France after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. One of the twentieth century's greatest Modern artists, Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. He died in 1983 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Text by Carolyn Lanchner.
Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color and accompanied by informative and accessible short essays that provide background on the artworks and on the artist himself, illuminating technique, style, subject matter and significance. Written by Carolyn Lanchner, former Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum, these books are excellent resources for readers interested in the stories behind masterpieces of the Modern canon and for those who wish to understand the contributions of individual artists to the history of Modern art. This volume focuses on Miró.
Miró: Round Trip
Cahiers d'Art: Miró
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Drawings, Volume I
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume IV
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume III
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume II
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume I
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume V
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume VI
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Ceramics
Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Sculptures
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
