{"id":82310,"date":"2026-09-30T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=82310"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:35:01","slug":"a-toute-epreuve-by-paul-eluard-and-joan-miro","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/a-toute-epreuve-by-paul-eluard-and-joan-miro\/","title":{"rendered":"A Toute \u00c9preuve by Paul \u00c9luard and Joan Mir\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u00c0 toute \u00e9preuve<\/em><\/strong> (roughly translated as &#8220;Ready for Anything&#8221;) is widely recognized as <strong>one of the finest and most ambitious artist&#8217;s books of the twentieth century<\/strong>. This masterpiece is a monumental, decade-long surrealist collaboration between the French poet <strong>Paul \u00c9luard<\/strong>, the Spanish master <strong>Joan Mir\u00f3<\/strong>, and the visionary Swiss publisher <strong>G\u00e9rald Cramer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>First conceived in 1947 and published in 1958, the book transforms \u00c9luard\u2019s deeply imaginative surrealist poetry into a polychromatic, three-dimensional physical entity. Rather than simply illustrating the text, Mir\u00f3 spent nearly eleven years meticulously carving <strong>over 230 woodblocks<\/strong> to ensure the abstract shapes, brilliant colors, and poetic lines merged seamlessly into a single sculptural object.<\/p>\n<h3>Product Features &amp; Overview<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Masterpiece of Surrealism:<\/strong> Experience a historic intersection of text and art. Mir\u00f3\u2019s iconic, amorphous shapes dance across the pages, giving vivid new life to \u00c9luard\u2019s verse.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meticulous Craftsmanship:<\/strong> Over 42,000 continuous print impressions were required to pull the original dazzling, pure colors from Mir\u00f3\u2019s intricately carved woodblocks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Facsimile Editions:<\/strong> Modern editions beautifully replicate the stunning 1958 original copy, featuring the poems in their original French alongside Mir\u00f3&#8217;s full-color compositions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scholarly Commentary:<\/strong> Facsimile editions include a detailed companion introduction by art historian Anne Hyde Greet, tracking the intimate history of this unparalleled collaboration between artist, poet, and publisher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Editions &amp; Availability<\/h3>\n<p>Whether you are an art historian, a surrealist collector, or a lover of fine typography, <em>\u00c0 toute \u00e9preuve<\/em> is an essential centerpiece for any collection.<\/p>\n<p>[C5]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c0 toute \u00e9preuve (roughly translated as &#8220;Ready for Anything&#8221;) is widely recognized as one of the finest and most ambitious artist&#8217;s books of the twentieth century. This masterpiece is a monumental, decade-long surrealist collaboration between the French poet Paul \u00c9luard, the Spanish master Joan Mir\u00f3, and the visionary Swiss publisher G\u00e9rald Cramer. First conceived in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":82316,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[253,7,98,54,108,75],"product_tag":[925,1264,1757,1758,753,317],"class_list":["post-82310","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-artist-books-arts-culture","product_cat-arts-culture","product_cat-literature","product_cat-modernism-contemporary","product_cat-poetry","product_cat-rare-used-op","product_tag-artist-books","product_tag-book-illustration","product_tag-joan-miro","product_tag-paul-eluard","product_tag-printmaking","product_tag-surrealism","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/82310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=82310"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=82310"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=82310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}