Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona / Josep Lluís Sert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983.

Contributor:

George R. Gund Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain)--Buildings.

Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain).

Buildings.

Physical Description:

94 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Barcelona : Ediciones Polígrafa ; New York : D.A.P. [distributor], [2010]

Summary:

The Joan Miró Foundation was the first public institution set up in Barcelona to focus entirely on contemporary art. Joan Miró and Josep Lluís Sert - its designer -, a founder member og GATCPAC (a leading group in the introduction of the modern architecture in Catalonia), had first met in 1932 and became close friends working both for the Spanish (Republican) Pavilion at the Paris World Fair in 1937. After the first big retrospective of the work of Joan Miró in Barcelona (1968), the artist had decided to set up a building to make his work accessible to the public on a permanent basis. Sert was commissioned, and create an open-plan structure where the interior space communicated with the exterior, producing a perfect balance between architecture and landscape.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Gund Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

8434312360

9788434312364

OCLC:

549149802

Publisher Number:

99954125728