Diego Rivera - Softcover

Helms, Cynthia Newman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393022757 ISBN 13: 9780393022759

Publisher: Norton, 1986

Synopsis

Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

About this title

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Rivera portrayed himself in his memoirs as a revolutionary firebrand and visionary artist who repudiated his ties to European art in favor of a new style of mural painting. Yet the essays in this catalogue prove that the Mexican artist fused Cubist space with Futurist movement in epic murals molded from his study of Italian Renaissance frescoes and pre-Colombian sculpture. The first major retrospective of Rivera's works, mounted at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows that there was much more to Rivera than his murals. Penetrating portraits, soul-baring self-portraits, sensitive nudes and cityscapes, and studies of Indian women are among the pictures reproduced here in 200 color and 325 black-and-white plates. Rivera's travels in the U.S. inspired paintings and drawings which drew on Aztec cosmology to explain industrial society in terms of universal order. Rivera's reputation has declined over the years, his art dismissed by some as leftist propaganda. But the essays in this outstanding album establish that his mural style is miles apart from socialist realism, and the contributors question the superficial distinction between "high" and "folk" art.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Norton
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0393022757
• ISBN 13: 9780393022759
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372