Fixed Ecstasy advances a fundamentally new understanding of Mir 's enterprise in the 1920s and of the most important works of his career. Without a doubt, Joan Mir (1893-1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in his contributions to modernist painting. Still, Mir 's work has eluded easy classification. He is best known as a Surrealist,...