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Joan Miró's Wild DecadeHow he assassinated painting again and again.

By Christopher BenfeyPosted Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, at 4:53 PM ET
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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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