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Author: Fèlix Fanés, Joan M. Minguet
Publisher: Fundació Joan Miró
Year of publication: 2014
Product features:
323 pp
208 illustrations
Paperback with flaps
24 x 18,5 cm
Languages:
Catalan/English: ISBN 978-84-942535-6-0
Spanish/English: ISBN 978-84-942535-7-7
Description:
During the First World War, Barcelona entered fully into modernity. While Europe was at war, some Catalan artists began the journey to the forefront of the avant-garde (Miró, Togores, Manolo Hugué...), many foreign artists came to escape the war (Picabia, Gleizes, Otto Lloyd, Olga Sacharova...) and by 1917 Picasso was back in Barcelona. All this occurred in a context of great political, working-class and cultural tension that is reflected in the diversity of visual formats: photography, illustrations, magazines, postcards, advertising, stickers and trade cards, and of course also in cinema. Mass culture was booming in a Barcelona that combined the hedonistic life of the port district with the cultural activities of the Mancomunitat.
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...