Rahon

Resumen del Libro

Retrospective presenting 40 years of art production of surrealist artist Alice Rahon (b. France 1904- immigrated to Mexico in 1940, d. 1987) through a selection of her artwork: watercolors, drawings, collages, paintings, art-objects, photographs, poems, inedited manuscripts, traveling diary, publications and her correspondence with art personalities: André Breton, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Anaïs Nin and others. Alice Rahon, a complex woman who frequently alluded water, wind, earth and fire in her art and poetry is described in the book as of all the surrealists that arrived in México, Rahon seems to be one of the most directly influenced by the Indian art — p. 8.