MIR, The Experience of Seeing. Late Works, 1963-1981

104 pages; numerous full-page color illustrations. A section of text includes conversation with a "militant young filmaker " of Mir's time, anit-Franco, who encountered Mir. Clean and bright throughout.

From Publisher:

This groundbreaking publication offers a reassessment of renowned modernist Joan Mir 's late-career works, created between 1963 and 1981. This body of work, almost entirely unknown in the United States, showcases Mir 's exceptional ingenuity as both a painter and sculptor.

Mir 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 most minimal 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 Mir 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 Mir 's role as a political figure and his quest to speak about the most intangible subjects through the materiality of objects and the painted gesture. This important new examination of Mir 's later work allows for a richer, deeper understanding of this significant modern artist's distinguished career.

Product Info

ISBN: 0300204795

ISBN-13: 9780300204797

Publisher: Seattle Art Museum w/ Museo Nacional Central de Arts Reina Sofia

Year: 2014

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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