Alberto Gironella Artist Monograph

Alberto Gironella • Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera and Emiliano Gironella Parra, Editors

Presented out of commerce by Bital Grupo Financiero, 2002. Hardcover. 197 pp. Black cloth with title stamped in silver to spine. Abundant b/w and color plates. Text in Spanish.

Good+ Firm despite slightly bowed boards. Mild rubbing to board edges. Damp spot to front endpapers. Last five leaves show bottom corner fold or wave. Bright pages free of markings. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, with edge wrinkles, small rear bottom corner.

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Most complete work to date on the artistic production of one of the great contributors to "La Ruptura" in Mexico, Alberto Gironella (1929-1999, Mexico). In his break from the established muralists, he received in 1960, the award for young artists at the Paris Biennial, and was regularly exhibited in Paris, Mexico , Madrid, and New York. Known as a surrealist, although in his later years his work was often considered postmodern and neo-baroque. Gironella painted his own surrealist versions of subjects as diverse as Emiliano Zapata and Madonna. Includes essays and critiques by leading art historians such as: Pierre Alechinsky, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, Mauricio López Valdés, Renato González Mello, Roberto Tejada, Olivier Debroise, Juan García Ponce, Carlos Fuentes and Eduardo Lizalde, among others.