A new edition of this classic survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist, Joan Miro, by his close friend, historian and fellow artist Roland Penrose. Among the great 20th-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Miro stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Miro's art went through many phases, and its major features - his signs and symbols, his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s, his lyrical, poetic gouaches, his monumental sculptures and ceramics, his unprecedented use of poetic titles, and his attachment to nature and to the night - are discussed here by Roland Penrose, a friend of the artist for almost five decades.

A brief epilogue by Eduardo de Benito, London correspondent of the Spanish art periodical Lapiz, illustrates the developments of Miro's last years. This new revised edition, now illustrated in colour throughout, includes a foreword by Antony Penrose, outlining the relationship between his father and the artist, as well as updates to the Bibliography.

这部新版本的经典调查报告，记录了西班牙超现实主义画家琼·米罗（Joan Miro）的生活和作品，由他相交近50年的好友、历史学家、艺术家伙伴罗兰·彭罗斯（Roland Penrose）撰写。在20世纪伟大的艺术大师中，超现实主义画家琼·米罗因其作品中弥漫的机智和自发的氛围而脱颖而出。米罗的艺术经历了许多阶段，其主要特征是他的符号和象征，他在1930年代创作的一系列抒发痛苦的素描画，抒情诗意的水粉画，不朽的雕塑和陶瓷，频繁使用的诗意标题，以及他对自然和夜晚的依恋。

本书后记由西班牙艺术期刊《Lapiz》的伦敦记者爱德华多·德·贝尼特（Eduardo de Benito）撰写，说明了米罗最后几年的发展。该修订版更新了书目，通篇配有彩色插图，包括安东尼·彭罗斯（Antony Penrose）的前言，概述了他父亲罗兰·彭罗斯和琼·米罗之间的关系。