Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting | 1927-1937, 2008, HC, Near Fine

Umland, Anne. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 8” x 10 ¾,” 242 pp.

ISBN: 9780870707346

Black woven cloth over boards, full-color pictorial paper wrap 6 ⅛” wide, white and red stamped titling to front and spine, white text to back, full-color illustrated endpapers. Very mild shelfwear, very minor edgewear, minor soiling marks near spine throughout, otherwise tightly bound and excellent. 242 pp. Replete with full-color images. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art from November 2, 2008 - January 12, 2009. With contributions by Anne Umland, et al. The book follows twelve series of Joan Miro’s as the artist sought to define anti-painting. Extensive image examples of works are paired with informative text, giving insight to Miro’s life, process and strategies, and artistic paradox. From Anne Umland’s essay, p. 2: Joan Miro revealed about his work, “The only thing that’s clear to me is that I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting, I have an utter contempt of painting. The only thing that interests me is the spirit itself, and I only use the customary artist’s tools–brushes, canvas, paints–in order to strike more precisely.”