A new edition of this classic illustrated survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist Joan Mirรณ by historian and close friend Roland Penrose. Among the great twentieth-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Mirรณ stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Author and artist Roland Penrose, a friend of Mirรณโs for almost five decades, discusses Mirรณโs art through it ...Full description
A new edition of this classic illustrated survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist Joan Mirรณ by historian and close friend Roland Penrose. Among the great twentieth-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Mirรณ stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Author and artist Roland Penrose, a friend of Mirรณโs for almost five decades, discusses Mirรณโs art through its many phases. Penrose also examines its major featuresโthe 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 Lรกpiz, illustrates the developments of Mirรณโs last years. This new revised edition, now illustrated in color throughout, includes a foreword by Antony Penrose, Rolandโs son, outlining the relationship between his father and the artist, as well as updates to the bibliography. 144 color illustrations