Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic. 1979

Octavio Paz et alt. Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic. 1979. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. 245 p. 22x26 cm.

Signed Guggenheim Museum exhibition catalog for a retrospective of Mexican painter Tamayo, held on the occasion of the artist's 80th birthday, setting over 100 of his paintings beside a selection of pre-Columbian sculptures and pieces of contemporary Mexican folk art. "The Mesoamerican tradition showed [Tamayo] something more than a logic and a grammar of forms; it showed him, in a more lively way even than Klee and the Surrealists, that the plastic object is a high frequency transmitter that gives out a plurality of meanings and images" (from the introduction by Octavio Paz). Illustrated throughout with reproductions and photos (most black-and-white). With a preface by Guggenheim deputy director Henry Berg, a biographical chronology, list of exhibitions, and bibliography; Paz introduction in English and Spanish.