On poets and others

Octavio Paz

Original title: Essays

Also published as: Essays on Mexican art

earliest edition we have, 1981 Harcourt Brace, 1993 303 pages

A Harvest book

"Octavio Paz probes the mystery of pre-Columbian art--it's 'otherness', its unique concept of time--and connects it to the ideas of Baudelaire and Nietzsche. He tells the estory of Hermenegildo Bustos, a self-taught painter in a remote Mexican village, and compares his work to the sarcophagi portraits of the Egyptian Fayum. He demonstrates how the Mexican muralists--Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco--were influenced by Europ...

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Editions we hold

Essays on Mexican art edition · 1994 · Harcourt Brace
Essays on Mexican art edition · 1993 · Harcourt Brace · 303 pages
El laberinto de la soledad ; Postdata ; Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad edition · 1993 · Fondo de Cultura Económica · 351 pages
On poets and others edition · 1992 · Paladin · 219 pages
On poets and others edition · 1990 · Arcade Pub. · 219 pages
On poets and others edition · 1987 · Carcanet · 219 pages
On poets and others edition · 1986 · Seaver Books · 219 pages
El laberinto de la soledad ; Posdata ; Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad edition · 1981 · Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1981. · 333 pages

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