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Rizzoli [Published Date: 2003]. Hardcover, 127 pp. State Second edition, 2003. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slightly oversized (8.5 x 12") blue Paper over Boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. 136 color illustrations and 7 in black and white. [From front jacket flap] Considered one of the great artists of the 20th century, Miro has bequeathed us a definitive body of work whose influence has continued to grow over the years. Joan Miro did not paint dreams but instead, through his works, provided the spectator with certain elements so that he would be the one that dreamed. Miro never worked under the influence of hypnosis, drugs or alcohol. His life, like his painting, was always methodical and ordered. Nevertheless, his artistic personality and the way he represented on canvas what inspiration dictated to him led Andre Breton to exclaim, "Miro is the most surrealist of us all!" This book not only details his pictorial output but also looks at the artist's incursions into areas as diverse as graphic work, ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and theatre. A creative force in the plastic field who felt an equal passion for the word, for the most daring poetic plays, a lover of objects, and the bare truth of materials, Miro always revealed himself as an oneiric artist, a seeker after the constellations that inspired some of his finest works. Contents include: Childhood and learning years (1893-1915); Early youth (1915 - 1917); Period of details (1918 - 1922); The seed sown in Paris bears fruit in Mont-roig (1923 - 1924); Surrealism (1924 - 1927); Inspiration through the masters of other ages (1928 - 1929); From the assassination of painting to the purity of form (1929 - 1934); "Savage paintings" (1934 - 1936); From tormented painting to simplification (1937 - 1938); Varengeville and the Constellations (1939 - 1941); A language of his own (1942 - 1946); International recognition (1947 - 1951); "Je reve d'un grand atelier" (1952 - 1960); The years of maturity (1961 - 1970); The later years and the Fundacio Joan Miro; Graphic work; Ceramics; Sculpture; Tapestry; Theatre; Epilogue; Biography; Bibliography; Illustrations; Index of illustrations