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Diego Rivera

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Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Edited by Leah Dickerman. Text by Anna Indych-Lopez.

The compelling story of how an art celebrity and icon of the Mexican left came to New York in 1931 to paint eight murals at The Museum of Modern Art

Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 148 pgs / 110 color. | 11/30/2011 | In stock
$35.00


Diego Rivera: Illustrious Words 1886-1921, Volume I

EDITORIAL RM
Text by Juan Coronel Rivera, Roberto Pliego, Magdalena Zavala.

Hardback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 432 pgs / 102 color / 36 bw. | 6/1/2008 | Out of stock
$55.00


Diego Rivera: Illustrious Words 1921-1957, Volume II

EDITORIAL RM
Text by Juan Coronel Rivera, Itzel Rodríguez, Alberto Híjar.

Hardback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 424 pgs / 102 color / 36 bw. | 11/1/2008 | Out of stock
$55.00


Diego Rivera: Great Illustrator

EDITORIAL RM
Text by Raquel Tibol.

Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 308 pgs / 498 color. | 4/1/2008 | Out of stock
$65.00


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Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern ArtDiego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Leah Dickerman. Text by Anna Indych-Lopez.

In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” --large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, now taking on New York subjects through monumental images of the urban working class and the city during the Great Depression. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that brings together key works made for Rivera's 1931 show, this catalogue casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure who traveled between Russia, Mexico and the United States and examines the intersection of artmaking and radical politics in the 1930s. Illustrated with reproductions of each panel as well as related paintings, drawings, prints and documentary photographs, the book's essays investigate the international politics of muralism, Rivera's history with MoMA, the iconography of the portable murals and technical aspects of the artist's working process.

Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was a central figure in the development of Mexican muralism, an ambitious public art initiative intended to relay Mexico's ideals after the Revolution (1910-1920). A highly cosmopolitan artist, Rivera had spent many years in Europe before returning to Mexico in 1921, and in 1927 he traveled to the Soviet Union where he met Alfred Barr, the soon-to-be founding director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Rivera's artistic celebrity benefitted from major commissions in the United States, including murals for the Pacific Stock Exchange, the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, MoMA and the Detroit Institute of Arts. By the 1930s, he enjoyed an unrivaled status at the center of international debates about public art and politics..

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Diego Rivera: Illustrious Words 1886-1921, Volume IDiego Rivera: Illustrious Words 1886-1921, Volume I

Published by Editorial RM.
Text by Juan Coronel Rivera, Roberto Pliego, Magdalena Zavala.

The renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was also a prodigious storyteller and a witness to some of the most formative social and artistic movements of the twentieth century. A central figure in the emergence of the avant-garde in post-revolutionary Mexico, Rivera was also a keen art critic--if occasionally caustic towards those he disagreed with, he was also a generous promoter of emerging talent. This two-volume set--the first comprehensive collection of Rivera's writings in English--reveals the vision; irony and insight of his rarely examined written work. Included in these two illustrated volumes are selections from Rivera’s inventive, partially fabricated autobiography, written in collaboration with Loló de la Torriente and Gladys March, as well as letters and other previously unpublished essays. The first volume covers his childhood, his years of apprenticeship and his life among the European avant-garde. The second covers his return to Mexico in the wake of its tumultuous and transformative revolution.

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Hardback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 432 pgs / 102 color / 36 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 61   

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Diego Rivera: Illustrious Words 1921-1957, Volume IIDiego Rivera: Illustrious Words 1921-1957, Volume II

Published by Editorial RM.
Text by Juan Coronel Rivera, Itzel Rodríguez, Alberto Híjar.

The renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was also a prodigious storyteller and a witness to some of the most formative social and artistic movements of the twentieth century. A central figure in the emergence of the avant-garde in post-revolutionary Mexico, Rivera was also a keen art critic--if occasionally caustic towards those he disagreed with, he was also a generous promoter of emerging talent. This two-volume set--the first comprehensive collection of Rivera's writings in English--reveals the vision; irony and insight of his rarely examined written work. Included in these two illustrated volumes are selections from Rivera’s inventive, partially fabricated autobiography, written in collaboration with Loló de la Torriente and Gladys March, as well as letters and other previously unpublished essays. The first volume covers his childhood, his years of apprenticeship and his life among the European avant-garde. The second covers his return to Mexico in the wake of its tumultuous and transformative revolution.

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Editorial RM

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Diego Rivera: Great IllustratorDiego Rivera: Great Illustrator

Published by Editorial RM.
Text by Raquel Tibol.

Best known for his epic mural production, Mexican artist Diego Rivera was also an important easel painter and--as this book eloquently demonstrates--an extraordinary illustrator. This volume takes a detailed and long-overdue look at this rich and significant facet of Rivera's immense oeuvre: the illustrations he contributed to books and periodical publications over the course of his long career. Accompanying the numerous reproductions is a long and splendidly researched essay by noted art critic Raquel Tibol, an expert on the artist's work. The panorama of Rivera's themes--Modernist poetry, political issues, Mexican folklore, pre-Columbian America and many others--take the reader on a tour of the history of Mexican art in the first half of the twentieth century. Even those who think they know Rivera's work will find new aspects to explore in this beautiful book.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 88   

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