| Description |
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Adult Follett Library Resources |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-205) and index. |
| Contents |
The masks of Diego Rivera -- In the town of frogs -- Europe -- Mexico again -- The cubist adventure -- Renaissance -- Chapingo, Russia, and Frida -- The belly of the beast -- The long good-bye. |
| Summary |
Like his contemporary Pablo Picasso, the Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was a man of enormous energy, astonishing versatility, and voracious appetites. Rivera made his mark as one of the greatest muralists of the twentieth century. His dramatic public life involved him in the deepest contradictions of art and politics. He embraced European modernism in the form of Cubism, only to abandon it in favor of an attempt to express the Mexican character in art, turning to ancient and folk traditions for inspiration. He espoused revolutionary communism but happily accepted commissions from wealthy socialites and capitalist businessmen and admired the technological achievements of the United States. His famously turbulent marriage to the painter Frida Kahlo has recently brought Rivera's name into prominence, but few people today fully understand his achievement. The great years of Rivera's art, the 1920s and early 1930s, saw an outpouring of work that was equal to the achievement of any twentieth-century master. |
| Audience |
Adult Follett Library Resources |
| Subject |
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957.
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Painters -- Mexico -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957.
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| ISBN |
9780810990821 paperback |
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0810990822 paperback |
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