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

This groundbreaking publication offers a reassessment of renowned modernist Joan Miro´s late-career works, created between 1963 and 1981. This body of work, almost entirely unknown in the United States, showcases Miro´s exceptional ingenuity as both a painter and sculptor. Miro: The Experience of Seeing includes colour illustrations of nearly 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures that show the breadth and contrast of Miro´s late career - from bold, colourful 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 Miro 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 Miro as a political figure, and his process of art-making as a quest to speak about the most intangible subjects through the materiality of objects and the painted gesture. This important new examination of Miro´s later work allows for a richer, deeper understanding of this significant modern artist´s distinguished career

Authors: Carmen Fernández Aparicio, Belén Galán Martín, Charles Palermo, Pere Portabella, Jesús Carrillo