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Hand selected books by RemediosVaro.com
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
Put the Art Institute of Chicago’s 2023 Varo catalogue on the table and open straight to Mexico City, 1955–1963. Edited by Caitlin Haskell and Tere Arcq, this English hardcover runs 184 pages, with essays on her surfaces, a taxonomy of techniques, and an inventory of a major portion of her library. Distributed for the Art Institute in partnership with Museo de Arte Moderno.
Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years
Reach for Masayo Nonaka’s English hardcover when you want her Mexico years in one survey. At 120 pages from RM, it walks from Madrid training through Paris Surrealism into the dreamlike oils she made after taking refuge in Mexico. An illustrated chronology and her ties to Buñuel, Paz, Péret, and the Mexico City circle come with the paintings.
Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo (Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies)
Slide this Routledge paperback into the stack when you want depth psychology beside the canvases. Part of the Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies series, the 262-page English volume reads Varo’s paintings as a critique of patriarchal underpinnings in Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Surrealism—and follows the alchemical thread in her friendship with Leonora Carrington.
On Homo rodans and Other Writings
Keep Varo’s own mischief on the nightstand with this Wakefield Press paperback. The expanded English edition gathers letters, dream accounts, recipes for controlled dreaming, automatic writing, and her absurdist essay On Homo rodans—plus newly discovered short stories never before published in any language. Margaret Carson’s translation brings the painter’s prose across.
Remedios (Spanish Edition)
For poetry in Spanish, take Claudia Caicedo Vilariño’s Remedios. This 96-page paperback offers fifty-two poems in dialogue with Varo’s famous paintings—an authentic creation of magic, love, and sharp discourse rather than a dry critique. Independently published for readers who want Varo’s lens in verse.
Remedios Varo. El hilo invisible
Add this Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México hardcover when you want a Spanish-language deep dive. Remedios Varo. El hilo invisible, by José Antonio Gil and Magnolia Rivera, is the volume to keep beside the paintings for life and work in Spanish.
