Diego Rivera – A Retrospective Reissue - Hardcover

Downs, Linda Bank; Helms, Cynthia Newman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393046095 ISBN 13: 9780393046090

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Synopsis

In a career that spanned sixty years, Diego Rivera produced some of the most distinctive and socially powerful works in modern art. Rivera was, in a real sense, a twentieth-century renaissance man. He was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, book illustrator, one of the first collectors of pre-Columbian art, and a political activist. In both the United States and Mexico, Rivera's monumental frescos gave life to revolutionary themes, often offending critics as well as the public. In New York's Rockefeller Center, for instance, his murals were destroyed because of public outrage over their strongly pro-communist content. Throughout his mature works, on this continent and abroad, Rivera was a champion of the oppressed. This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. Its 200 color plates and 325 black-and-white photographs illustrate Rivera's life and work from his early years at the Mexican Academy of San Carlos and studies in Spain, his subsequent eleven-year sojourn in Paris and brief involvement with Cubism in the first part of this century, to his efforts to establish a truly Mexican style in the murals for which he is most famous. Accompanying Rivera's work are essays by noted scholars reevaluating his place in the history of modern art. This book was originally published to coincide with the first major North American retrospective ever mounted of the artist, at the Detroit Institute of the Arts, where Rivera's finest works in the United States-the Detroit Industry Frescos-remain as vivid today as when they were completed fifty years ago.

About this title

Synopsis:

In his 60-year career, Diego Rivera produced distinctive and socially powerful works of art. This volume illustrates Rivera's life and work from his early years to his efforts to establish a truly national Mexican style in the murals for which he is most famous.

About the Author:

Linda Bank Downs is executive director of the College Art Association. She formerly served as curator of education at the Detroit Institute of Arts and head of education at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393046095
• ISBN 13: 9780393046090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 372