Summer 2008

CONFERENCE

On Joan Miró: Robert Lubar 4 June 2008 Robert Lubar was born in New York City in 1958. His father’s family came to The United States from Russia (what is now Ukraine) in the first decade of the 20th century. His mother’s family emigrated to New York from Izmir after World War One. A native New Yorker, Professor Lubar now lives in the New Jersey countryside and spends considerable amounts of time in his adopted home of Barcelona, Spain. An expert in European painting and sculpture in the period from 1860-1940, Professor Lubar has published widely on such artists as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “The Trial of Salvador Dalí” (to be published in Spanish by Ediciones Siruela, Madrid), which concerns the artist’s mock trial in February 1934 by members of the inner circle of the Surrealist movement for “counter-revolutionary” activities. Professor Lubar is also contributing three essays to the catalogue of the forthcoming exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting.”