Constellations of Miro, Breton

by Paul Hammond and Paul Hammond

During the early days of the Second World War, the Catal n painter, Joan Mir , created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andr Breton composed his own "Constellations," a set of hermetic prose poems meant to "illustrate"--that is, not simply to shed light on, but to lend luster to--Mir 's paintings, and to resume a peripatetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872863727
• ISBN13: 9780872863729
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.0"