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Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miro in the 1920s

2008ref. 202749University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 2008. Softcover. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on the top text block. Stamp on the front free end page. Stamp sticker and due date card on the back pasted end page. Sticker at the base of the spine. Glossy white softcover book with the title printed in blue and in red down the spine. Pages: 10 ix-xvii 1 1-269. Profusely illustrated with a mix of black-and-white and color images. "Fixed Ecstasy advances a fundamentally new understanding of Miró's enterprise in the 1920s and of the most important works of his career. Without a doubt Joan Miró 1893-1983 is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso Matisse Mondrian and Pollock in his contributions to modernist painting. Still Miró's work has eluded easy classification. He is best known as a Surrealist but as Charles Palermo demonstrates Miró's early years in Barcelona and Paris require a revisionist account of Miró's development and his place in modernism. Palermo's arguments are based on new research into Miró's relations with the rue Blomet group of writers and artists as well as on close readings of the techniques and formal structures of Miró's early drawings and paintings. Chapter by chapter Palermo unfolds a narrative that makes a cogent argument for freeing Miró from long-standing dependence on Surrealism with its strong emphasis on dreams and the unconscious. Miró along with associates such as Georges Bataille Carl Einstein and Michel Leiris pressed representation to its limit at the verge of an ecstatic identification with the world." Contents are as follows: Introduction: silence in painting -- Calligraphy: vine and sundial -- Extension: toys and rainbows -- Stroke: medium and compass -- Entering painting's thickness: translucence and turning -- Suicide: Leiris and Siriel -- Conclusion: Miró in silence. Pennsylvania State University Press paperback