Miro ─ The Experience of Seeing: Late Works, 1963-1981

"This groundbreaking publication offers a reassessment of renowned modernist Joan Mirao's late-career works, created between 1963 and 1981. This body of work, almost entirely unknown in the United States, showcases Mirao's exceptional ingenuity as both apainter and sculptor. Mirao: 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 mostminimal 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 Mirao; 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 Mirao's role as a political figure and his quest to speakabout the most intangible subjects through the materiality of objects and the painted gesture. This important new examination of Mirao's later work allows for a richer, deeper understanding of this significant modern artist's distinguished career"--