Taking Joan Mir 's notorious declaration of 1927--"I want to assassinate painting"--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Mir the "anti-painter," identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Mir Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Mir 's attacks on painting by presenting,...