Livre Miro
In this superb critical-biographical study marking the centenary of Miro's birth, French art critic Dupin, who was a friend of the Catalan painter, peers behind the "elaborately cultivated delirium" of his playfully exuberant canvases to find pessimism, mystery, anxiety and foreboding. Miro's meticulously detailed "enchanted realism" (1918-1920) scarcely foretold his sudden plunge into the realm of fantasy. Surreal, automatist dreamscapes ...