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| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Leah Dickerman, Diego Rivera, Anna Indych-López, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), 2011 In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to NewYork six weeks before the opening and provided him a studio space in the building. 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, taking on NewYork subjects through monumental images of the urban working class. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that brings together key works from Rivera's 1931 show and related material, this vividly illustrated catalogue casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico and the United States and examines the intersection of art-making and radical politics in the 1930s. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Duncan Tonatiuh, 2011-05-01 Discover the life and legacy of celebrated Mexican artist Diego Rivera in this picture book by award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh A Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner! Diego Rivera, one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century, was once just a mischievous little boy who loved to draw. But this little boy would grow up to follow his passion and greatly influence the world of art. After studying in Spain and France as a young man, Diego was excited to return to his home country of Mexico. There, he toured from the coasts to the plains to the mountains. He met the peoples of different regions and explored the cultures, architecture, and history of those that had lived before. Returning to Mexico City, he painted great murals representing all that he had seen. He provided the Mexican people with a visual history of who they were and, most important, who they are. Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh, who has also been inspired by the art and culture of his native Mexico, asks, if Diego was still painting today, what history would he tell through his artwork? What stories would he bring to life? Drawing inspiration from Rivera to create his own original work, Tonatiuh helps young readers to understand the importance of Diego Rivera’s artwork and to realize that they too can tell stories through art. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera Betram D. Wolfe, 2000-07-18 Known for his grand public murals, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of Mexico's most revered artists. His paintings are marked by a unique fusion of European sophistication, revolutionary political turmoil, and the heritage and personality of his native country. Based on extensive interviews with the artist, his four wives (including Frida Kahlo), and his friends, colleagues, and opponents, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera captures Rivera's complex personality—-sometimes delightful, frequently infuriating and always fascinating—-as well as his development into one of the twentieth century's greatest artist. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: The Murals of Diego Rivera Desmond Rochfort, 1987 At the time Diego Rivera began painting these murals he was an internationally known artist with his works reproduced in magazines worldwide. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: My Art, My Life Diego Rivera, with Gladys March, 2012-04-26 A richly revealing document offering many telling insights into the mind and heart of a giant of 20th-century art. Engrossing as a novel. — Chicago Sunday Tribune. 21 halftones. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Susan Goldman Rubin, 2013-02-05 Diego Rivera offers young readers unique insight into the life and artwork of the famous Mexican painter and muralist. The book follows Rivera's career, looking at his influences and tracing the evolution of his style. His work often called attention to the culture and struggles of the Mexican working class. Believing that art should be for the people, he created public murals in both the United States and Mexico, examples of which are included. The book contains a list of museums where you can see Rivera's art, a historical note, a glossary, and a bibliography. Praise for Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People STARRED REVIEWS With engaging prose that is beautifully illustrated with Diego Rivera's paintings and murals, this spacious volume introduces the great Mexican artist to young people. Accompanied by crisply reproduced color images of both the bright, minutely detailed murals as well as archival photos of the artist at work, the accessible account discusses how Diego constructed his art... --Booklist, starred review The stunning illustrations include images of Rivera's murals, his cartoon drawings, reproductions of art that he found influential, and photographs. The design, with scrollwork along the top and bottom and an unusual placement of page numbers, exudes style. The text is clearly written, straightforward, and attention-grabbing, with a good number of quotes interspersed throughout. --School Library Journal, starred review A carefully researched, cogently argued and handsomely produced appreciation. --Kirkus Reviews There is life to these pages, and breadth to its subject. Short enough to reward a wary reader but with enough context and clarity to bring Diego to life, Rubin takes a tricky guy for kids to know about and makes him precisely what he was: bigger than life. --School Library Journal, Fuse 8 Blog Enhanced by gorgeously reproduced photos and artwork, Rubin's account follows the Mexican artist from his early drawings -- as a small child, he was given free rein in a room covered with black canvas as high as he could reach -- through his eventful, productive life. --The Washington Post Rubin traces Rivera's life from his emergent boyhood talent, through the formal studio education that left him restless and professionally unsatisfied, to realizing his calling to create massive public artworks for the common people, celebrating the dignity of their labor. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Award School Library Journal Best Book of 2013 Best Multicultural Children's Books 2013 (Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature) Notable Children's Books from ALSC 2014 Notable Books for a Global Society Book Award 2014 |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Erika Cabrera, 2011-10-20 This revealing biography covers the life and art of painter Diego Rivera. Diego Rivera: A Biography presents a concise but substantial biography of the famous and controversial Mexican artist. Chronologically arranged, the book examines Rivera's childhood and artistic formation (1886–1906), his European period (1907–1921), and his murals of the 1920s. It looks at the work he did in the United States (1930–1933) and follows his career from his subsequent return to Mexico through his death in 1957. Drawing from primary source materials, the book reveals facts about Rivera's life that are not well known or have not been widely discussed before. It explores his tempestuous marriage to renowned painter Frida Kahlo and looks at controversial works, such as Rivera's 1933 mural for the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, which featured a portrait of Communist party leader Vladimir Lenin, and was officially destroyed the following year. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mexican Muralism Alejandro Anreus, Leonard Folgarait, Robin Ad�le Greeley, 2012-09-08 In this comprehensive collection of essays, three generations of international scholars examine Mexican muralism in its broad artistic and historical contexts, from its iconic figuresÑDiego Rivera, JosŽ Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro SiquierosÑto their successors in Mexico, the United States, and across Latin America. These muralists conceived of their art as a political weapon in popular struggles over revolution and resistance, state modernization and civic participation, artistic freedom and cultural imperialism. The contributors to this volume show how these artistsÕ murals transcended borders to engage major issues raised by the many different forms of modernity that emerged throughout the Americas during the twentieth century. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera's America James Oles, 2022-07-19 Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than division, was paramount. This volume accompanies a major exhibition highlighting Diego Rivera’s work in Mexico and the United States from the early 1920s through the mid-1940s. During this time in his prolific career, Rivera created a new vision for the Americas, on both national and continental levels, informed by his time in both countries. Rivera’s murals in Mexico and the U.S. serve as points of departure for a critical and contemporary understanding of one of the most aesthetically, socially, and politically ambitious artists of the twentieth century. Works featured include the greatest number of paintings and drawings from this period reunited since the artist’s lifetime, presented alongside fresco panels and mural sketches. This catalogue serves as a guide to two crucial decades in Rivera’s career, illuminating his most important themes, from traditional markets to modern industry, and devoting attention to iconic paintings as well as works that will be new even to scholars—revealing fresh insights into his artistic process. Published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with University of California Press Exhibition dates: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: July 16, 2022—January 1, 2023 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas: March 11—July 31, 2023 |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mexican Murals in Times of Crisis Bruce Campbell, 2022-08-16 Murals have been an important medium of public expression in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution, and names such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco will forever be linked with this revolutionary art form. Many people, however, believe that Mexico's renowned mural tradition died with these famous practitioners, and today's mural artists labor in obscurity as many of their creations are destroyed through hostility or neglect. This book traces the ongoing critical contributions of mural arts to public life in Mexico to show how postrevolutionary murals have been overshadowed both by the Mexican School and by the exclusionary nature of official public arts. By documenting a range of mural practices—from fixed-site murals to mantas (banner murals) to graffiti—Bruce Campbell evaluates the ways in which the practical and aesthetic components of revolutionary Mexican muralism have been appropriated and redeployed within the context of Mexico's ongoing economic and political crisis. Four dozen photographs illustrate the text. Blending ethnography, political science, and sociology with art history, Campbell traces the emergence of modern Mexican mural art as a composite of aesthetic, discursive, and performative elements through which collective interests and identities are shaped. He focuses on mural activists engaged combatively with the state—in barrios, unions, and street protests—to show that mural arts that are neither connected to the elite art world nor supported by the government have made significant contributions to Mexican culture. Campbell brings all previous studies of Mexican muralism up to date by revealing the wealth of art that has flourished in the shadows of official recognition. His work shows that interpretations by art historians preoccupied with contemporary high art have been incomplete—and that a rich mural tradition still survives, and thrives, in Mexico. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Deborah Kent, 2005 A biography of Mexican painter Diego Rivera detailing his childhood and career painting murals. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture Mary K. Coffey, 2012-04-17 This is a study of the reciprocal relationship between Mexican muralism and the three major Mexican museums&—the Palace of Fine Arts, the National History Museum, and the National Anthropology Museum. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: México 1900-1950 Agustín Arteaga, 2017 The catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Maexico 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Josae Clemente Orozco and the Avant-Garde, on view in Dallas from March 12 to July 16, 2017--Title page verso. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Conversations with Diego Rivera Alfredo Cardona Peña, 2018-07-09 A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Rivera’s iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his own time; an artist who escaped being lynched on more than one occasion, a painter so controversial that his public murals inspired movements, or, like the work commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, were ordered torn down. Here in his San Angelín studio, we hear Rivera’s feelings about the elitist aspect of paintings in museums, his motivations to create public art for the people, and his memorable, unedited expositions on the art, culture, and politics of Mexico. The book has seven chapters that loosely follow the range of the author’s questions and Rivera’s answers. They begin with childlike, yet vast questions on the nature of art, run through Rivera’s early memories and aesthetics, his views on popular art, his profound understanding of Mexican art and artists, the economics of art, random expositions on history or dreaming, and elegant analysis of art criticisms and critics. The work is all the more remarkable to have been captured between Rivera’s inhumanly long working stints of six hours or even days without stop. In his rich introduction, author Cardona-Peña describes the difficulty of gaining entrance to Rivera’s inner sanctum, how government funtionaries and academics often waited hours to be seen, and his delicious victory. At eight p. m. the night of August 12, a slow, heavy-set, parsimonious Diego came in to where I was, speaking his Guanajuato version of English and kissing women’s hands. I was able to explain my idea to him and he was immediately interested. He invited me into his studio, and while taking off his jacket, said, “Ask me...” And I asked one, two, twenty... I don't know how many questions ‘til the small hours of the night, with him answering from memory, with an incredible accuracy, without pausing, without worrying much about what he might be saying, all of it spilling out in an unconscious and magical manner. A series of Alfredo Cardona-Peña’s weekly interviews with Rivera were published in 1949 and 1950 in the Mexican newspaper, El Nacional, for which Alfredo was a journalist. His book of compiled interviews with introduction and preface, El Monstruo en su Laberinto, was published in Spanish in 1965. Finally, this extraordinary and rare exchange has been translated for the first time into English by Alfredo’s half-brother Alvaro Cardona Hine, also a poet. According to the translator’s wife, Barbara Cardona-Hine, bringing the work into English was a labor of love for Alvaro, the fulfillment of a promise made to his brother in 1971 that he did not get to until the year before his own death in 2016. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera. the Complete Murals Luis-Martín Lozano, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, 2022 Here are the life and works of Diego Rivera: folk hero, husband of Frida Kahlo, and one of Mexico's greatest artists. His giant murals depicting social change still grace the halls of Mexico's public buildings. Much of the photography for this book required scaffolding to achieve the greatest accuracy and show Rivera's murals in detail. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Picasso and Rivera Michael Govan, Diana Magaloni, 2016-12-22 Examining the artistic development of Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera, two towering figures in the world of modern art, this generously illustrated book tells an intriguing story of ambition, competition, and how the ancient world inspired their most important work. Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time explores the artistic dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera that spanned most of their careers. The book showcases nearly 150 iconic paintings, sculptures, and prints by both artists, along with objects from their native ancient Mediterranean and Pre- Columbian worlds. It gives an overview of their early training in national academies; important archaeological discoveries that occurred during their formative years; and their friendly and adversarial relationship in Montparnasse. A series of essays accompanies the exquisitely reproduced works, allowing readers to understand how the work of each artist was informed by artworks from the past. Picasso drew upon Classical art to shape the foundations of 20th-century art, creating images that were at once deeply personal and universal. Meanwhile, Rivera traded the abstractions of European modernism for figuration and references to Mexico’s Pre-Columbian civilization, focusing on public murals that emphasized his love of Mexico and his hopes for its future. Offering valuable insight into the trajectory of each artist, this book draws connections between two powerful figures who transformed modern art. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 Leonard Folgarait, 1998-06-28 Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 is the first full-length account of this major movement in the history of Modernism. Following the Revolution of 1910, Mexican society underwent a profound transformation in every sector of political and cultural life. Mexican artists participated in this social revolution during a vital two-decade period through public art programmes funded by the government and other institutions. Applying a social-historical methodology, Leonard Folgarait examines this phenomenon and focuses on the mural paintings of Diego Rivera, José Orozco, and David Siqueiros produced during this period. He provides an indepth analysis of the form and meaning of these mural cycles, while documenting the system of patronage, the critical connections between state policy and aesthetics, and the visual strategies devised by patrons and artists in order to maximise the impact of these propagandistic images. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Modern Mexican Culture Stuart A. Day, 2017-10-31 This collection of essays presents a key idea or event in the making of modern Mexico through the lenses of art and history--Provided by publisher. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mexican Muralists Desmond Rochfort, 1998-03-01 Los tres grandes: Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Now legendary, these men have emerged as the most prominent figures of the famed Mexican mural movement, which lasted from the '20s through the early '70s and was hailed as the most significant achievement in public art of the 20th century. The dramatic story of the movement is told here in a fascinating history of the artists, accompanied by over 100 spectacular color reproductions of the murals. Showcasing popular as well as lesser-known works from around the US and Mexico, this is the first high-quality paperback to do justice to a subject that will captivate every lover of Mexican art and culture, Rivera fan, and art historian, as well as anyone who appreciates a beautiful, intelligent art book. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mexico City Nick Caistor, 2000 A cultural guide to the Mexico City. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Paint the Revolution Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Renato Gonz?lez Mello, 2016 A comprehensive look at four transformative decades that put Mexico's modern art on the map In the wake of the 1910-20 Revolution, Mexico emerged as a center of modern art, closely watched around the world. Highlighted are the achievements of the tres grandes (three greats)--José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros--and other renowned figures such as Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo, but the book goes beyond these well-known names to present a fuller picture of the period from 1910 to 1950. Fourteen essays by authors from both the United States and Mexico offer a thorough reassessment of Mexican modernism from multiple perspectives. Some of the texts delve into thematic topics--developments in mural painting, the role of the government in the arts, intersections between modern art and cinema, and the impact of Mexican art in the United States--while others explore specific modernist genres--such as printmaking, photography, and architecture. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the period that brought Mexico onto the world stage during a period of political upheaval and dramatic social change. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City Exhibition Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (10/25/16-01/08/17) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (02/03/17-04/30/17) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June-September 2017) |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism Anthony White, 2001 The self-portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are renowned for their dream-like quality and emotional intensity. A passionate woman endowed with an indomitable spirit, Kahlo overcame injury and personal hardship to become one of the world's most important female artists. Celebrated by the surrealists in her own lifetime, she has attained cult-like status both for her extraordinary art and her tempestuous love-life with her husband, Diego Rivera, Mexico's most prominent modern painter. An outstanding selection of paintings by Kahlo and Rivera form the core of this catalogue, which accompanies the National Gallery of Australia's exhibition. Jacques Gelman, the Russian emigre film producer, and his wife, Natasha, built up their collection over many years of acquaintance and collaboration with Mexico's greatest creative artists. It is now widely regarded as the most significant private holding of twentieth century American art. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mexican History R. S. Silva E., 1966 |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990 David Craven, 2006-01-01 In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals - in Mexico (1910-40), in Cuba (1959-89), and in Nicaragua (1979-90) - were defining moments in twentieth-century life in the Americas. Craven discusses the structural logic of each movement's artistic project - by whom, how, and for whom artworks were produced -- and assesses their legacies. In each case, he demonstrates how the consequences of the revolution reverberated in the arts and cultures far beyond national borders. The book not only examines specific artworks originating from each revolution's attempt to deal with the challenge of 'socializing the arts,' but also the engagement of the working classes in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua with a tradition of the fine arts made newly accessible through social transformation. Craven considers how each revolution dealt with the pressing problem of creating a 'dialogical art' -- one that reconfigures the existing artistic resource rather than one that just reproduces a populist art to keep things as they were. In addition, the author charts the impact on the revolutionary processes of theories of art and education, articulated by such thinkers as John Dewey and Paulo Freire. The book provides a fascinating new view of the Latin American revolutionaries -- from artists to political leaders -- who defined art as a fundamental force for the transformation of society and who bequeathed new ways of thinking about the relations among art, ideology, and class, within a revolutionary process. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Mexico Adrian Locke, 2013-09-17 In the first half of the 20th century, Mexico was home to a burgeoning of art comparable in energy to the political revolution that shook the country between 1910 and 1920. This surge of artistic activity is the subject of this compelling new book, which presents the work of Mexican artists—from the social-realist painters Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros to the photographers Agust�n Jim�nez and Manuel �lvarez Bravo—alongside that of their international contemporaries, figures as diverse as Philip Guston, Josef and Anni Albers, and Edward Burra. Illustrated with some 150 striking images, Adrian Locke’s incisive text explores the artistic documentation of the dramatic changes wrought by the revolution, the government’s role in employing artists to promote its reforms, the emergence of a native modernism, and the remarkable contribution of European and American artists and intellectuals, including Eisenstein, Trotsky, and Andr� Breton, to Mexico’s cultural renaissance. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Rivera Andrea Kettenmann, Diego Rivera, 2000 It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dal and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. This study presents the work of this extraordinary artist. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: The Seven Keys to Communicating in Mexico Orlando R. Kelm, Olivia Hernandez-Pozas, David A. Victor, 2020-02-03 How do you build successful professional connections with colleagues from Mexico? While most books focus simply on how to avoid common communication mistakes, this book leads its readers to an understanding of how to succeed and thrive within the three cultures, Mexico, the US, and Canada. Kelm, Hernandez-Pozas and Victor present a set of practical guidelines for communicating professionally with Mexicans, both in Mexico and abroad, providing many photographs as examples. The Seven Keys to Communicating in Mexico follows the model of presenting key cultural concepts used in the earlier books by Kelm and Victor on Brazil and (with Haru Yamada) on Japan. Olivia Hernandez-Pozas, Orlando Kelm, and David Victor, well-respected research professors and seasoned cross-cultural trainers for businesspeople, guide readers through Mexican culture using Victor's LESCANT Model (an acronym representing seven key cross-cultural communication areas: Language, Environment, Social Organization, Contexting, Authority, Nonverbal Behavior, and Time). Each chapter addresses one of these topics and demonstrates how to evaluate the differences among Mexican, US, and Canadian cultures. In the final chapter the authors bring all of these cultural interactions together with a sample case study about business interactions between Mexicans and North Americans. The case study includes additional observations from North American and Mexican business professionals who offer related suggestions and recommendations. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Frida Hayden Herrera, 2018-06-28 The beautifully illustrated and utterly absorbing biography of one of the twentieth century's most transfixing artists Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century 's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still so she began to paint. Kahlo 's unique talent was to make her one of the century 's most enduring artists. But her remarkable paintings were only one element of a rich and dramatic life. Frida is also the story of her tempestuous marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, her love affairs with numerous, diverse men such as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, her involvement with the Communist Party, her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture, and of the inspiration behind her unforgettable art. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Portrait of Mexico Diego Rivera, Bertram David Wolfe, 1937 |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Modeling Interpretation and the Practice of Political Theory Martin Beckstein, Ralph Weber, 2021-08-29 Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally useful? What are their limits and possibilities? Can we practice them in isolation, or can we combine them? Modeling Interpretation and the Practice of Political Theory addresses these questions in a refreshing and hands- on manner. It not only models in the abstract, but also tests in practice eight basic schemes of interpretation with which any ambitious reader of political texts should already be familiar. Comprehensive and engaging, the book includes: A straightforward typology of interpretation in political theory. Chapters on the analytical Oxford model, biographical and oeuvre- based interpretation, Skinner’s Cambridge School, the esoteric model, reflexive hermeneutics, reception analysis and conceptual history. Original readings of Federalist Paper No. 10 , Plato’s Statesman, de Gouges’s The Three Urns, Rivera’s wall painting The History of Mexico and Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing; with further chapters on Machiavelli, Huang Zongxi and a Hittite loyalty oath. An Epilogue proposing pragmatist eclecticism as the way forward in interpretation. An inspiring, hands- on textbook suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as experienced scholars of political theory, intellectual history and philosophy interested in learning more about types and models of interpretation, and the challenge of combining them in interpretive practice. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Art and Revolution David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1975 |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera David Craven, 1997 Art historian David Craven presents a sustained and highly original interpretation of Diego Rivera's particular version of epic modernism, while offering a probing and coherent account of the artist's lifelong political activism. Drawing on both new primary documents and the best of recent secondary literature, Craven considers what Rivera's work in the public sphere has come to signify, and examines the artist's ongoing legacy for post-colonial discourse ; The study features a careful formal analysis of Rivera's most important paintings. Besides addressing his rediscovery of pre-Columbian art, Craven analyzes the artist's use of narrative, iconographic programs and the fresco technique for most well-known mural cycles, which continued to draw structurally on his early avant-garde work |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Gender and Art Colin Cunningham, Emma Barker, 1999-01-01 Encompassing European art, architecture and design from the sixteenth century to the present day, it explores both the work of women artists and the ways that visual representation by male and female artists may be gendered.--BOOK JACKET. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Laura Baskes Litwin, Diego Rivera, 2005 Profiles the Mexican muralist who inspired a revival of fresco painting in Latin America and the United States, and discusses his turbulent marriage to Frida Kahlo. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Diego Rivera Sheila Wood Foard, Diego Rivera, 2009 The creator of amazing works of art--and great controversy--this Mexican muralist's political beliefs and marital infidelities fueled his artistic expression. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urrea, 2008-11-16 This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the Devil's Highway. Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a book of the year in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: On the Viewing Platform Katie Trumpener, Tim Barringer, 2020-11-17 A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-cultural phenomenon, often linked to an imperial worldview. Yet it also transformed modes of viewing and exerted a lasting, visible impact on filmmaking techniques, museum displays, and contemporary installation art. On the Viewing Platform offers close readings of works ranging from proto-panoramic Renaissance cityscapes and 19th-century paintings and photographs to experimental films and a wide array of contemporary art. Extensively researched and spectacularly illustrated, this volume proposes an expansive new framework for understanding the histories of art, film, and spectatorship. |
| diego rivera history of mexico: The Eagle and the Virgin Mary Kay Vaughan, Stephen Lewis, 2006-03-13 When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940. Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully. Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, María Teresa Fernández, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. López, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velázquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala |
| diego rivera history of mexico: The Frescoes of Diego Rivera Diego Rivera, 1929 |
| diego rivera history of mexico: Restructuring the State in the Post Colonial Era: Nation Building in Mexico Ayse YARAR, 2018-07-04 |
Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals - Yale University
At age twenty, in 1907, Rivera left Mexico and arrived in Barcelona, Spain, to study with the Spanish painter Chicharro who was regarded as the leader of the younger generation of Spanish … See more
Diego Rivera - Saylor Academy
Diego Rivera's mural depicting Mexico's history at the National Palace in Mexico City. In the autumn of 1922, Rivera participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Union of Technical …
Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera's National Palace Mural
In painting the history of Mexico, Rivera was behaving as a historian, faced with the same problems as that of a historian who writes, of how best to tell that history.
Mexican Identity Through the Eyes of Diego Rivera - Open …
in the series of frescoes in the national palace. Rivera set out to create a history of the Mexican people from the time of the Aztec empire through the conquest by the Spaniards and ended …
An Eye for Art - Questioning Traditions - Diego Rivera
Through his murals he told powerful stories about the struggles of the poor, and he emphasized the history and diverse peoples of Mexico. When he died in 1957, Rivera was honored for …
Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Alfaro Siqueiros, …
Celebrating the Mexican people’s potential to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism, a movement led by Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente …
Diego Rivera, Los Frutos del Trabajo (The Fruits of Labor), 1932
Diego Rivera is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century. His large-scale, public murals expressed his Marxist politics—a strong commitment to workers’ …
Diego Rivera History Of Mexico - cie-advances.asme.org
Diego Rivera's frescoes in the National Palace and elsewhere in Mexico City ... New revised and enlarged edition, etc. (Official guide book.) [With reproductions and a portrait.]
DIEGO RIVERA’S CREATI - University of California Press
a lush Mexican landscape. Rivera portrayed Mexican women of different social classes in Creation, a strategy that complica es his depiction of race. He associated profession, social …
Diego Rivera The History Of Mexico Copy
Diego Rivera's frescoes in the National Palace and elsewhere in Mexico City ... New revised and enlarged edition, etc. (Official guide book.) [With reproductions and a portrait.]
Diego Rivera - themaxfacts.com
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of Mexico's most important painters and a major artist of the twentieth century. Born in 1886 in Guanajuato, Rivera studied traditional European artistic …
A Two-Fer Art History with Mexico’s Most Famous Couple
Rivera was a socialist and reformer who used his art – building-covered murals – to reach the common people of his native Mexico. His first work, covering the entire history of Mexico took …
Remedy or Poison? Diego Rivera, Medicine and Technology
Following an artistic apprenticeship in Mexico, Rivera had travelled. growing interest in mural painting. In 1920 he made an extended visit to Italy where he learnt the fresco technique and …
The Slow Fuse of the Revolutionary Mural: Diego Rivera, …
ing of Rivera’s vast mural scheme at the Ministry of Public Education, painted between 1923 and 1928. She sees his depiction of the diverse geographical areas of Mexico and its indigenous …
Diego Rivera: A Biography - api.pageplace.de
In June 1921, Diego Rivera, a Mexican artist who had been living and painting in Europe for 14 years, returned to Mexico. He was in-corporated into the Vasconcelos mural program and, at …
Diego Rivera and His Mexico - JSTOR
Rivera lived long enough to witness the city's fantastic growth and transformation from "a charming little Paris into a large Houston, Texas" (as the painter Siqueiros expressed to me his …
Diego Rivera History Of Mexico [PDF]
Diego Rivera's frescoes in the National Palace and elsewhere in Mexico City ... New revised and enlarged edition, etc. (Official guide book.) [With reproductions and a portrait.]
Recent Literature on Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism
For almost twenty years, from the early 1920s until about 1940, Diego Rivera was rightly regarded as the leader of the Mexican Mural Renaissance and one of the three most famous painters in …
The History Of Mexico Diego Rivera (Download Only)
Such could be the essence of the book The History Of Mexico Diego Rivera, a literary masterpiece that delves deep in to the significance of words and their impact on our lives. …
Between a Rockefeller and a Hard Place: Diego Rivera’s Man …
On May 9, 1933, engineers working for the Rockefeller family ordered Diego Rivera to stop work on Man at the Crossroads, a mural for the Radio City of America (rca) building at Rockefeller …
Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals - Yale University
We can learn about history and ourselves through the murals created by Diego Rivera whose dream was to be the artist of the Americas. In this curriculum unit students will learn about the artist …
Diego Rivera - Saylor Academy
Diego Rivera's mural depicting Mexico's history at the National Palace in Mexico City. In the autumn of 1922, Rivera participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, …
Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera's National Palace Mural
In painting the history of Mexico, Rivera was behaving as a historian, faced with the same problems as that of a historian who writes, of how best to tell that history.
Mexican Identity Through the Eyes of Diego Rivera - Open …
in the series of frescoes in the national palace. Rivera set out to create a history of the Mexican people from the time of the Aztec empire through the conquest by the Spaniards and ended with …
An Eye for Art - Questioning Traditions - Diego Rivera
Through his murals he told powerful stories about the struggles of the poor, and he emphasized the history and diverse peoples of Mexico. When he died in 1957, Rivera was honored for creating a …
Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Alfaro Siqueiros, …
Celebrating the Mexican people’s potential to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism, a movement led by Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco—known as Los …
Diego Rivera, Los Frutos del Trabajo (The Fruits of Labor), 1932
Diego Rivera is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century. His large-scale, public murals expressed his Marxist politics—a strong commitment to workers’ rights and …
Diego Rivera History Of Mexico - cie-advances.asme.org
Diego Rivera's frescoes in the National Palace and elsewhere in Mexico City ... New revised and enlarged edition, etc. (Official guide book.) [With reproductions and a portrait.]
DIEGO RIVERA’S CREATI - University of California Press
a lush Mexican landscape. Rivera portrayed Mexican women of different social classes in Creation, a strategy that complica es his depiction of race. He associated profession, social origin, and …
Diego Rivera The History Of Mexico Copy
Diego Rivera's frescoes in the National Palace and elsewhere in Mexico City ... New revised and enlarged edition, etc. (Official guide book.) [With reproductions and a portrait.]
Diego Rivera - themaxfacts.com
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of Mexico's most important painters and a major artist of the twentieth century. Born in 1886 in Guanajuato, Rivera studied traditional European artistic styles …
A Two-Fer Art History with Mexico’s Most Famous Couple
Rivera was a socialist and reformer who used his art – building-covered murals – to reach the common people of his native Mexico. His first work, covering the entire history of Mexico took …
Remedy or Poison? Diego Rivera, Medicine and …
Following an artistic apprenticeship in Mexico, Rivera had travelled. growing interest in mural painting. In 1920 he made an extended visit to Italy where he learnt the fresco technique and …
The Slow Fuse of the Revolutionary Mural: Diego Rivera, …
ing of Rivera’s vast mural scheme at the Ministry of Public Education, painted between 1923 and 1928. She sees his depiction of the diverse geographical areas of Mexico and its indigenous …
Diego Rivera: A Biography - api.pageplace.de
In June 1921, Diego Rivera, a Mexican artist who had been living and painting in Europe for 14 years, returned to Mexico. He was in-corporated into the Vasconcelos mural program and, at the …
Diego Rivera and His Mexico - JSTOR
Rivera lived long enough to witness the city's fantastic growth and transformation from "a charming little Paris into a large Houston, Texas" (as the painter Siqueiros expressed to me his distaste for …
Diego Rivera History Of Mexico [PDF]
Diego Rivera's frescoes in the National Palace and elsewhere in Mexico City ... New revised and enlarged edition, etc. (Official guide book.) [With reproductions and a portrait.]
Recent Literature on Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism
For almost twenty years, from the early 1920s until about 1940, Diego Rivera was rightly regarded as the leader of the Mexican Mural Renaissance and one of the three most famous painters in the …
The History Of Mexico Diego Rivera (Download Only)
Such could be the essence of the book The History Of Mexico Diego Rivera, a literary masterpiece that delves deep in to the significance of words and their impact on our lives. Compiled by a …
Between a Rockefeller and a Hard Place: Diego Rivera’s Man …
On May 9, 1933, engineers working for the Rockefeller family ordered Diego Rivera to stop work on Man at the Crossroads, a mural for the Radio City of America (rca) building at Rockefeller Center …
