Tracing Miro s career, this book begins in the 1920s with theartist s introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, andthe flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque andother influential artists and poets. It moves on to his creationof an iconographic pictorial style, which reached maturity inthe 1940s and forever distinguished Miro from hiscontemporaries. Nearly one hundred of his greatest worksreproduced in this book display the artistic range of thislyrical painter, whose brilliant use of color, line, and shaperesulted in haunting compositions. Fascinating photographsdepict the artist at various stages of his life and perceptiveessays about his work round out this exciting perspective ofthe world as portrayed in Miro s art.