Janis Mink Libros

Puede que otro inventase la rueda, pero Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) inventó el ready-made. Puede que un secador de botellas no sea más que un secador de botellas pero, firmado por Duchamp, es además una de las obras más importantes del arte del siglo XX. Duchamp ha sido un enigma para los historiadores del arte y una gran fuente de inspiración para otros artistas. Este estudio aborda el mito y revela el convincente carisma de Marcel Duchamp. Sobre la serie: Cada libro de la serie menor arte de TASCHEN incluye: Un detallado sumario cronológico de la vida y obra del artista, cubriendo su importancia histórica y cultural. Aproximadamente 100 ilustraciones en color con comentarios explicativos. Una concisa biografía.

Miró's world of forms resembling shorthand symbols Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. In his travels, Miró encountered the intellectual avant-garde of his time. His friends included Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, André Masson, Jean Arp and Pablo Picasso. From the mid-twenties onward, Miró strove to leave direct objective references behind and developed the pictograms that typify his style. The pictures of this period, which include perhaps the most beautiful and significant ones of his whole oeuvre, dispense with spatiality and an unambiguous reference to objects. From now on, the surfaces are defined by numerals, writing, abstract emblems, and playful figures and creatures. Nineteen forty four saw the beginning of his extensive graphic oeuvre, ceramics, monumental mural works, and sculptures. In these works, too, the Catalan artist sought the solid foundation of a figurative, symbolic art with orientation as regards faces, stars, moons, rudimentary animal forms, letters. Joan Miró developed in several stages his characteristic flowing calligraphic style and his world of forms resembling shorthand symbols. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series