Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79801 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author
Walter Erben (1908-1981) studied German at Berlin University as well as painting at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, where he studied under Oskar Moll and Paul Klee. Erben taught fine art in Rome and Hagen, authored many successful books on the subject, and lectured extensively during his lifetime. Hajo Duchting, a painter, writer, editor, and art historian, holds professorships in the history of modern art at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich. He has supplemented Erben's text with a chapter on Miro's later life as well as numerous interpretations of a selected number of works.

Customer Reviews

A great book for perceiving Miro
I am enjoying this book as my best. I bough it as a reminder of Miro's work and found an outstanding journey to his house Calamajor and visits to his workshop by a very sensitive author. The quality of the book is excellent (as all Taschen's). Most of the pictures are accompanied by some stories that help to understand the artworks. Excellent price for this beautiful art-book.

Discumbobulated But Good
A Miro book with plenty of pluses and minuses.
The first half of this book lays claim to the conversations between Miro and the author. Erben engaged Miro in numerous private discussions at the artist's house in Mallorca. With many interesting insights into his work. Indeed these discussions provide us a fascet of the artist beyond his art work. And the reader comes away from these lenthy conversations lokking at Miro's art with a new perspective.. It is done well.

But what is somewhat confusing is that the artwork reproductions which are interspersed on the pages have nothing to do with the discussion at hand. So the reader is following a discussion about one phase of the artist's life while viewing art from decades later. Yes there are notations on the page about the particular work. But somehow not fully satisfying. If I may be so bold; I would have arranged the conversations en-total at the beginning of the book and the plates all together in the second half of the book.

A BIG plus in this book is the quantity of late period reproductios. Dozens of reproductions from the 1960's & 1970's. Good color quality in large format. Very satisfying.

So all in,all it is a good book worth the amazon price.
But not THE Miro book.

A great book about Miro
This book about Miro is presented in an interview format and is a wonderful representation of the artist's life, not only in the words but in the reproductions as well.