Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals
Diego in detail
The most comprehensive study of Rivera's work ever made
A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist—along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo—Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera's most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan.
This lavish volume—the first book to feature Rivera's complete mural oeuvre, including newly discovered works—features numerous large-scale details of the murals, allowing their various components and subtleties to be closely examined. In addition to the murals is a vast selection of paintings, vintage photos, documents, and drawings from public and private collections around the world many of which the whereabouts were previously unknown to scholars and whose inclusion here is thanks to the most intense research performed on Rivera's work since his death. Texts include an illustrated biography and essays by prominent art historians offering interpretations of each mural. One could not ask for a more comprehensive study of Rivera's oeuvre; finally, a half-century after Rivera's death, his work is the subject of the sweeping retrospective it deserves.
The works of Diego Rivera are herein reproduced with the authorization of CONACULTA-INBA, Mexico, 2007. D. R. 2007 Banco de México, Fiduciario en el Fideicomiso relativo a los Museos Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Av. Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México D. F.
Photograph by Rafael Doniz
© 2007 TASCHEN GmbH
Contributing authors: María Estela Duarte Sanchez, Laura González Matute, Renato González Mello, Catha Paquette, Ana Isabel Pérez Gavilán Ávila, Nadia Ugalde Gómez, Marina Vázquez Ramos, James Weschler
About the authors:
Luis-Martín Lozano is art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art. He is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to research Rivera’s and Kahlo’s oeuvre in California. Lozano has taught and lectured extensively on the subject of Mexican art and has written more than 50 essays about Mexican modernism as well as monographic essays about Diego Rivera, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo and many others. Since 2001 he has been director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de México.
Diego Rivera's grandson Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera has worked as editor of the magazines Punto Cero en Literatura, El Faro revista de literatura y arte and M'hija, together with Carlos Jaurena. He founded Kahlo-Coronel Fotogalería, Mexico’s first private photo-gallery, in 1987. His collection of Mexican popular pottery is the world’s most extensive, including more than 15,000 pieces from the 16th century to the present day. He has curated more than 100 exhibitions for art galleries, museums, and biennials and has written 71 publications.
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Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals
Lozano, Luis-Martín / Rivera, Juan Coronel
Hardcover, 29 x 44 cm (11.4 x 17.3 in.), 674 pages, $ 200.00 |
- Events (1 items)
Exhibition
Rivera
October 11, 2008 - January 18, 2009
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68102-1292, Ph: 402-342-3300, United States
Rivera
October 11, 2008 - January 18, 2009
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68102-1292, Ph: 402-342-3300, United States
- Reviews (36 items)
"The best available graphic resource on the mural work of the 20th century Mexican painter. The book's sheer size is the only appropriate vehicle to capture the monumental scale of Diego Rivera's work- one is able to see the exquisite details of the historical characters and actual imagery that compose it. The book is also impressive in its comprehensiveness, covering all of the artist's painted mural production in Mexico and the US, including recently restored works.... Highly recommended."
Choice Magazine, Middletown Connecticut, United States
Choice Magazine, Middletown Connecticut, United States
- Clippings (49 items)
Los murales de Rivera, reunidos en un libro
Uno más uno, Mexico, November 24, 2006
Uno más uno, Mexico, November 24, 2006
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