The Roots of Miro by Gimferrer, Pere and Joan Miro

New York; (1993): Rizzoli. Limited Edition. Large Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies.The present copy is number 471, 435pp., illustrated 285 full color illustrations and 1,276 in black and white. By comparing Spanish artist Joan Miro's finished paintings and sculptures with more than 1200 of his sketches and preparatory studies, Gimferrer places Miro's art in a surprising new perspective. This intensive analysis of Miro's creative process explains how he would first isolate some element from the teeming outside world, then incorporate a graphic sign into it, thus setting in motion a transfigurative process in which objects, signs and symbols underwent a constant metamorphosis in placing Miro's preliminary drawings alongside the 3 pictures to which they gave rise. Panish poet and art critic, gimgerrer illuminates the inner academy by which Miro discovered his major motifs and set them loose in a free-floating pictorial universe. Bibliographic references (pages 434-435). A fine coppy bound in black cloth, spine lettering white, in a fine dust jacket housed within publisher's lackluster card slipcase which has a few splits and bumps.