Constellations of Miro, Breton

by Paul Hammond

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Editorial Reviews

During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalan painter Joan Miró created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent of the nightmare of contemporary event. In 1958 the French poet André 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--Miró's paintings, and to resume a peripatetic dialogue about exile.

Customer Reviews

Unreadable!, 2002-09-11

I could not make it through the first chapter of this book. I am not an English teacher, but the run-on sentences and atrocious sentence structure drove me crazy! The author tries to provide a political context for the Constellations, both paintings and poetry. However, he jumps from year to year and place to place without transition. I found this extremely confusing and also incomplete. I was also disappointed in the black and white illustrations. I don't think the paintings can be appreciated at all in this book. Don't buy it!