Format:
672 p. (some folded)
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ill. (chiefly col.)
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45 cm
ISBN:
382284943X
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9783822849439
Uniform Title:
Diego Rivera, obra mural completa. 〈engl.〉
Content:
The most comprehensive study of Rivera's work ever made on the mural patrimony of painter Diego Rivera that reproduces for the first time in one edition all the 47 murals Rivera made in Mexico and in the United States along with his mosaic works and relives. This extensive research in Mexico and the United States documents the evolution of the creative process and the cultural and political context of each of Rivera's murals created between 1921 and 1957. Contents were the responsibility of expert historian Luis-Martín Lozano and artist Juan Coronel Rivera and included the participation of noted academics Renato González Mello, Marina Vázquez, María Estela Duarte, Laura González Matute, Catha Paquette, James Wechsler, Ana Isabel Pérez Gavilán and Nadia Ugalde. Illustrated with more than 200 images of the artist's canvas from all his periods and hundreds of photographs of his drawings and sketches for the murals done in Mexico and in San Francisco, Detroit and New York
Note:
Translation of: Diego Rivera, obra mural completa
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Translators from colophon
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 663-665) and index
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Creation (Old College of San Ildefonso, Mexico)
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Political vision (Ministry of Public Education, Mexico)
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Song to the earth and those who labor thereon (Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo, Mexico)
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Visions of the history of Mexico (Palacio Nacional and Palacio de Cortés, Mexico)
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Revolutions and allegories (Mexico and San Francisco)
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Mexico and the United States (The panels for the Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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The industry of Detroit (The Detroit Institute of Arts)
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Man at the crossroads (Rockefeller, New York; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico)
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Portrait of America (New Workers' School, New York)
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The fight against Fascism (Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico; San Francisco City College
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Metaphorical readings on history (Palacio Nacional, Museo Mural and Teatro de los Insurgentes, Mexico
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War, peace and victory (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
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Art before science and medicine (National Institute of Cardiology and La Raza Medical Center, Mexico)
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The origin of life (Museo Anahuacalli, Cárcamo of the River Lerma and Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico)
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Easel painting
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Chronology of the artist and his murals
Language:
English
Author information:
Taschen, Benedikt 1961-
Author information:
Rivera, Diego 1886-1957
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