Fixed Ecstasy advances a fundamentally new understanding of Miro's enterprise in the 1920s and of the most important works of his career. Without a doubt, Joan Miro (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, Miro's work has eluded easy classification. He is best known as a Surrealist, but, as Charles Palermo demonstrates, Miro's early years in Barcelona and Paris require a revisionist account of Miro's development and his...
Fixed Ecstasy advances a fundamentally new understanding of Miro's enterprise in the 1920s and of the most important works of his career. ...
Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. Charles Palermo argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusinol. The young Picasso and his contemporaries experienced the challenges of modernity as an attempt to reflect on the lost relation to...
Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. Char...
