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Joan Miró’s paintings are among the most widely recognized of any modern artist,reproduced everywhere from books to T-shirts to posters. While he is most often seen as a surrealist or a postwar abstract painter, terms he rejected, this book brings new insights into Miró’s work by framing it in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived.The FarmHead of a Catalan PeasantThe Hope of a Condemned ManDrawing on new scholarship from an international group of experts, the book accompanies the first exhibition in nearly half a century to show work from throughout Miró’s career. It sheds new light on the life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

The National Gallery's Miro exhibit is an artist's astonishing chronological journey through the major movements of modern art.

To say that the show is grand in scale--with pieces dating from 1918 to 1974--is an understatement...

A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art...makes a spirited attempt to find and explore the politics.

The exhibition's layout, together with the accompanying scholarly catalog, enables one to begin to understand Miró's progression from an art of detailed realism...through a later phase of expressionistic and Fauve-like paintings, and then into a burst of surrealistic excess...

Through the critical writing...[Miró] emerges as a consistently moral force...what speaks loudest is the portrait of Miró as an artist as committed to liberty and social transformation as to art itself.

An illustrated retrospective survey focuses on Miró's politically engaged art.

Joan Miró The Ladder of Escape is a beautiful book, and its essays are both informative and thought-provoking....