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Five keys to the secret world of Remedios Varo

Alberto Ruy Sánchez... [and others, autores]; editor, Margarita de Orellana; editorial coordinators, Gabriela Olmos, Michelle Suderman; translation into English, Lorna Scott Fox, Richard Moszka, Quentin Pope; photographs, Walter Gruen [and others]
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Mexico City : Artes De México, 2008

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Summary:
A detailed and scholarly collection of essays on the art of Varo (b. Spain 1908 - d. México 1963) as studied from 5 different perspectives, with contributions from Walter Gruen, her second husband.
Table of Contents:
  • Remedios Varo and her work for Bayer / Tere Arcq
  • Five birds emerge from the ice / Alberto Ruy Sánchez
  • The esoteric key: in search of the miraculous / Tere Arcq
  • The architectural key: places of the unconscious / Peter Engel
  • The literary key I: Weaving the fabrics of the marvellous / Jaime Moreno Villarreal
  • The Surrealist key: creative energy in prewar Barcelona / Janet A. Kaplan
  • The oneiric key: dreams of alchemy / Fariba Bogzaran
  • The literary key II: a poet and a seer / Sandra Lisci
  • Chronology / Walter Gruen & Tere Arcq.
Contributors:
Ruy Sánchez, Alberto, 1951-
Orellana, Margarita de
Olmos, Gabriela
Suderman, Michelle
Fox, Lorna Scott
Moszka, Richard
Pope, Quentin
Gruen, Walter, 1914-2008
Languages:
English
Spanish
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Translated from (original): Spanish
Main Work:
Cinco llaves del mundo secreto de Remedios Varo (English)
Subjects:
Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963 — Themes, motives
Women artists — Mexico — Criticism and interpretation
Surrealism — Mexico
Animals in art
Cats in art
Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963
Themes, motives
Women artists
Criticism and interpretation
Surrealism
Mexico
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Physical Description:
215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Call Numbers:
ND259.V3 .C5613 2008
ISBNs:
9706833382
9789706833389
OCLC Numbers:
288945286