Volume 40, Number 21 · December 16, 1993
Sophisticated Peasant
By John Golding
Joan Miró 1993–January 11, 1994
an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 17,
Joan Miró
catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner
Museum of Modern Art/Abrams, 484 pp., $37.60 (paper)
Miró
by Jacques Dupin
Flammarion, 480 pp., FF 950
Joan Miró: Campo de Estrellas
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
177 pp., PES 3,400
A toute épreuve
by Paul Eluard, woodcuts by Joan Miró, Introduction by Anne Hyde Greet
Braziller, unpaged pp., $29.50 (paper)
The centenary of Joan Miró's birth is being celebrated in high style. A 'year of homage' has been declared by the Generalitat of Catalonia, and Barcelona is ablaze with posters and banners, thus keeping up some of the euphoria induced by last year's Olympics. (The beautiful and undervalued Catalan composer Federico Mompú, also born in 1893, is being accorded lesser honors.) In Majorca, where Miró spent the last thirty-seven years of his life, a permanent collection of his work was inaugurated last December and opened to the public in March. Tenacious Miró fans can generally gain access to the large and beautiful studio next door, designed for the artist by Josep Lluis Sert, which is kept as it stood on Miró's death.
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