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Author: Andrew Dempsey, Salvador Giner, Richard Riley
Publisher: Fundació Joan Miró
Year of publication: 2010
ISBN: 978-84-937610-8-0
Language: Catalan-Spanish-English
Product features:
283 pp.
84 colour illustrations; 27 b/w illustrations
Hardback
24.5 x 17 cm
Description:
“Let us face the future” takes a journey through British art from the end of the Second World War to the late 1960s and for the first time in Spain shows eighty-eight works by British artists from 1945-1968, on loan from the collections of British Council, the Arts Council, the Tate and Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, as well as other public and private collections.
The exhibition begins with works by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon which reflect the state of Britain and Europe immediately after the war: the horror of the concentration camps and the ever-present threat of the atomic bomb.
The range of art in Britain in this period is displayed in other sections devoted to the painters of St Ives (a fishing village in Cornwall where an influential artists’ colony became established), including Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton; the British Constructivists led by Victor Pasmore; and the revival of figurative painting by Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, amongst others.
Miró-ADLAN: An Archive of Modernity (1932-1936) reconstructs the key role of the group of artists and intellectual known as ADLAN (Amics de l'Art Nou [Friends of New Art]) in introducing modernity to the Barcelona of the 1930s, during the years of the Spanish Republic.
Éluard, Cramer, Miró - «À toute épreuve», more than a book reconstructs the creative process behind Miró's book based on a collection of poems by Paul Éluard with the same title. The exhibition is part of the Miró. Documents series, whose aim is to use the Fundació's archive to further explore certain aspects of Miró's work.
This catalogue not only shows Sert’s architectural work, but also reveals its effects on town planning. On a theoretical level, as a young man he defended the ideas behind new architecture. As a creative architect, he designed buildings that are still admired as examples to be followed. The Fundació Joan Miró is the building Sert created to house the work...