by Eva Beate Bode, Joan Baixas, Joan Miró, Hubertus Gassner, Richard W. Gassen, Rosa Maria Malet · Fondation Pierre Gianadda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782884430432
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Exhibition catalog of Joan Miró at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, from June 6 to November 11, 1997. The catalog, created by Jean-Louis Prat, includes essays by Joan Punyet-Miro and Jean-Louis Prat, and bibliographical references.
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma, Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
