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Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937

Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937

Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937

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MIRO. Umland, Anne

ed. Cl. New York, 2008

Book ID: 79037

Taking Joan Mir—'s notorious declaration of 1927--"I want to assassinate painting"--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Mir— the "anti-painter," identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. This exhibition catalogue surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Mir—'s attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Mir—'s return to Realism in "Still Life with Old Shoe" (1937).

242 pp., 200 color illus.