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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812531603321

Autore

Souter Gerry

Titolo

Diego Rivera : his art and his passions / / Gerry Souter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York], : Parkstone International, c2007

ISBN

1-283-95680-2

1-78042-872-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Temporis collection

Altri autori (Persone)

RiveraDiego <1886-1957.>

Disciplina

751.73

Soggetti

Painters - Mexico - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; From Training to Mastership; His First Steps; Discovering Europe; ¡ Vuelva a México ! Homecoming; His New Exile to Europe or His Artistic Quest; The Eight Year Search - 1911-1919; The Revelation of Italian Frescos - 1920-1921; Between Painting and Politics; Mexican Muralists; Fame, Diego and Frida; A Communist Cheered by Americans; The Last Years or the Return to the Country; Back Home in Mexico; Adiós Frida, Vaya con DiosAdiós Diego, Vida larga al artista de la gente; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"I was aware of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, long before I encountered the many other "Diego Riveras" that roamed the world between the beginning of the twentieth century and the late 1950's. [...] While his easel paintings and drawings constitute a large body of both his early and late work, his unique murals explode off walls in virtuoso performances of mind-staggering organisation. On those walls the man, his legend and myths, his technical talent, his intense story-telling focus and self-indulgent ideological convictions all come together."