Joan Miró by James Thrall Soby, 1st Edition
Joan Miró by James Thrall Soby, 1st Edition Museum of Modern Art Publication 1959, Vintage MoMA Art Book, Vintage Surrealist Art Book
From the inside dust jacket:
Among artists of his generation, Miró has long held a leading place, and today is respected throughout Europe and in America for his magnificently personal color, his inventive fantasy and his perennial freshness of vision.
Born in 1893 at Montroig, a small Spanish town, Miró was trained as an artist at nearby Barcelona's School of Fine Arts and other local academics, but in 1915 decided to work by himself. For a very short time his art showed the influence of various advanced movements in European painting, and then with final abruptness he found his own authoritative style, a style deeply rooted in Catalan heritage, in his native province's Romanesque frescoes, its music, architecture and festivals. In 1919 he made his first trip to Paris, and soon played a major role in the surrealist movement, to which he was attracted by hi instinctive love of spontaneous expression and chimerical appearances. But he has always returned to Spain at intervals, and is nourished to unusual degree by the Catalan environment. He now lives at Palma on the island of Mallorca.
Perhaps Miró's most distinctive quality as an artist is his delicious humor and gaiety. He has retained throughout his career a direct and uninhibited delight in fantastic forms which relate his work to the imagery of gifted children, though it must be added at once that his craftsmanship is immensely knowledgeable and skilled. His personality is unmistakable in whatever he creates, whether ceramics, prints, sculpture or easel and, occasionally, mural paintings. He is sometimes described as an abstract painter, but he himself is clear on the point: "For me a form is never something abstract; it is always a sign of something. it is always a man, a bird, or something else. For me painting is never form for form's sake." Mr. Soby is the author of many distinguished books on modern artists, among them Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Gris, Modigliani, Rouault, and Ben Shahn. His general studies include Contemporary Painters and Modern Art and the New Past.
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Despite some signs of wear to spine of dust jacket (see photos), this vintage art book from the Museum of Modern Art remains in good condition.
Measurements
9 1/2" tall
8 5/8" wide
5/8" deep
Joan Miró by James Thrall Soby, 1st Edition Museum of Modern Art Publication 1959, Vintage MoMA Art Book, Vintage Surrealist Art Book
From the inside dust jacket:
Among artists of his generation, Miró has long held a leading place, and today is respected throughout Europe and in America for his magnificently personal color, his inventive fantasy and his perennial freshness of vision.
Born in 1893 at Montroig, a small Spanish town, Miró was trained as an artist at nearby Barcelona's School of Fine Arts and other local academics, but in 1915 decided to work by himself. For a very short time his art showed the influence of various advanced movements in European painting, and then with final abruptness he found his own authoritative style, a style deeply rooted in Catalan heritage, in his native province's Romanesque frescoes, its music, architecture and festivals. In 1919 he made his first trip to Paris, and soon played a major role in the surrealist movement, to which he was attracted by hi instinctive love of spontaneous expression and chimerical appearances. But he has always returned to Spain at intervals, and is nourished to unusual degree by the Catalan environment. He now lives at Palma on the island of Mallorca.
Perhaps Miró's most distinctive quality as an artist is his delicious humor and gaiety. He has retained throughout his career a direct and uninhibited delight in fantastic forms which relate his work to the imagery of gifted children, though it must be added at once that his craftsmanship is immensely knowledgeable and skilled. His personality is unmistakable in whatever he creates, whether ceramics, prints, sculpture or easel and, occasionally, mural paintings. He is sometimes described as an abstract painter, but he himself is clear on the point: "For me a form is never something abstract; it is always a sign of something. it is always a man, a bird, or something else. For me painting is never form for form's sake." Mr. Soby is the author of many distinguished books on modern artists, among them Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Gris, Modigliani, Rouault, and Ben Shahn. His general studies include Contemporary Painters and Modern Art and the New Past.
***
Despite some signs of wear to spine of dust jacket (see photos), this vintage art book from the Museum of Modern Art remains in good condition.
Measurements
9 1/2" tall
8 5/8" wide
5/8" deep
Joan Miró by James Thrall Soby, 1st Edition Museum of Modern Art Publication 1959, Vintage MoMA Art Book, Vintage Surrealist Art Book
From the inside dust jacket:
Among artists of his generation, Miró has long held a leading place, and today is respected throughout Europe and in America for his magnificently personal color, his inventive fantasy and his perennial freshness of vision.
Born in 1893 at Montroig, a small Spanish town, Miró was trained as an artist at nearby Barcelona's School of Fine Arts and other local academics, but in 1915 decided to work by himself. For a very short time his art showed the influence of various advanced movements in European painting, and then with final abruptness he found his own authoritative style, a style deeply rooted in Catalan heritage, in his native province's Romanesque frescoes, its music, architecture and festivals. In 1919 he made his first trip to Paris, and soon played a major role in the surrealist movement, to which he was attracted by hi instinctive love of spontaneous expression and chimerical appearances. But he has always returned to Spain at intervals, and is nourished to unusual degree by the Catalan environment. He now lives at Palma on the island of Mallorca.
Perhaps Miró's most distinctive quality as an artist is his delicious humor and gaiety. He has retained throughout his career a direct and uninhibited delight in fantastic forms which relate his work to the imagery of gifted children, though it must be added at once that his craftsmanship is immensely knowledgeable and skilled. His personality is unmistakable in whatever he creates, whether ceramics, prints, sculpture or easel and, occasionally, mural paintings. He is sometimes described as an abstract painter, but he himself is clear on the point: "For me a form is never something abstract; it is always a sign of something. it is always a man, a bird, or something else. For me painting is never form for form's sake." Mr. Soby is the author of many distinguished books on modern artists, among them Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Gris, Modigliani, Rouault, and Ben Shahn. His general studies include Contemporary Painters and Modern Art and the New Past.
***
Despite some signs of wear to spine of dust jacket (see photos), this vintage art book from the Museum of Modern Art remains in good condition.
Measurements
9 1/2" tall
8 5/8" wide
5/8" deep