Rufino Tamayo

The painting of Rufino Tamayo has acquired decisive importance in contemporary art in terms both of its high quality, maintained throughout a long, intense life, and its special significance. He was very clearly one of the greatest American creators and, at the same time, one of the artists who managed to penetrate deepest into the reality of today's Man, going beyond his historical dimension. "One might say", writes Jacques Lassaigne in this book, "that, in the same way as pre-Columbian art, Tamayo's painting is at the same time metaphor, geometry and transfiguration". The reader is able to unravel better the mysteries of one of the great artistic creations of our era.
Profusely illustrated throughout with full-color photographic reproductions and in black and white.