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Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: Fundació Joan Miró
Year of publication: 2016
Product features:
98 pp.
11 colour illustrations
Paperback
21 x 14,5 cm
Languages:
Catalan: ISBN 978-84-16411-12-2
Spanish: ISBN 978-84-16411-13-9
English: ISBN 978-84-16411-14-6
Description:
In this publication, the author Antonio Ortega traces the genealogy of DIY art practices from the 1960s until the present. To do so, he calls upon a personal selection of artists who gave a new turn to their work process allowing them to gain authority over the narrative.
To complement his analysis, Antonio Ortega chose to be interpellated by art historian Pilar Bonet. He also turned to social researcher Rubén Martínez Moreno and artist Quim Packard – who reflect on the contextual framework of self-organisation – as well as painter Pere Llobera, who contributed his illustrations.
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...