Download or read book The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera written by Betram D. Wolfe and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-07-18 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Diego Rivera written by Raquel Tibol and published by Editorial Rm. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Diego Rivera s America written by James Oles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Diego Rivera written by David Craven and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The Effects of the Nation written by Carl Good and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the effect of a nation? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, or only dormant? The essays in this groundbreaking volume use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and beyond its own borders. Mexico is a particularly apt focus, partly because of the vitality of its culture, partly because of its changing political identity, and partly because of the impact of borders and borderlessness on its national character. The ten essays collected here look at a wide range of aesthetic productions -- especially literature and the visual arts -- that give context to how art and society interact. Steering a careful course between the nostalgia of nationalism and the insensitivity of globalism, these essays examine modernism and postmodernism in the Mexican setting. Individually, they explore the incorporation of historical icons, of vanguardism, and of international influence. From Diego Rivera to Elena Garro, from the Tlateloco massacre to the Chiapas rebellion, from mass-market fiction to the film "Aliens," the contributors view the many sides of Mexican life as relevant to the creation of a constantly shifting national culture. Taken together, the essays look both backward and forward at the evolving effect of the Mexican nation.
Download or read book Autobiographical Writings on Mexico written by Richard D. Woods and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans and foreigners, with authors ranging from disinherited peasants, women, servants and revolutionaries to more famous painters, writers, singers, journalists and politicians. Primary sources of historic and artistic value, the writings listed provide multiple perspectives on Mexico's past and give clues to a national Mexican identity. This work presents 1,850 entries, including autobiographies, memoirs, collections of letters, diaries, oral autobiographies, interviews, and autobiographical novels and essays. Over 1,500 entries list works from native-born Mexicans written between 1691 and 2003. Entries include basic bibliographical data, genre, author's life dates, narrative dates, available translations into English, and annotation. The bibliography is indexed by author, title and subject, and appendices provide a chronological listing of works and a list of selected outstanding autobiographies.
Download or read book Confesiones de un creador de imagen written by Luisa Benion and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desde el momento en que Peter tuvo conciencia del sentido de su existencia (5 años de edad), sintió la energía única del Caribe, la magia de Cuba que moldeó su destino sin igual. Peter, un niño con genio artístico y una sensibilidad extraordinaria, es víctima de abuso físico; al saber esto de manera accidental, su abuela y confidente, acude a la santería como un recurso para liberarlo de dicho trauma y esta experiencia trae consigo predicciones que llenan esta historia de esoterismo al estilo Caribe, en la lucha de Peter por superar las debilidades del ego y su encuentro con ley de atracción. Al ser víctima del gobierno castrista, la madre de Peter decide inmigrar a Nueva York y, a pesar del increíble desafío de empezar una nueva vida en un país foráneo y con recursos, dramáticamente, limitados, la cadena de personajes que Peter conoce en el trayecto de su vida es sin igual: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Liza Minelli, Oscar de la Renta, Mia Farrow, Truman Capote, Vidal Sassoon, Jaqueline Kennedy, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston y muchos más. Esta historia cuenta con la influencia esotérica de la cultura cubana, por medio de las predicciones de Isabel, la bruja santera, (entre ellas develar a los asesinos de Kennedy y Marilyn Monroe), y a la vez, varios enfoques como el de Neale Donald, “Conversations with God”, Abraham Hicks, “Ask and it is given”, Facundo Cabral “Este es un nuevo día”.
Download or read book The Urban Enigma written by Simone Vegliò and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Latin America indicated an autonomous form of postcolonialism that was marked by the production of multiple conceptualisations of time. The analysis particularly focuses on iconic urban transformations in capital cities such as Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Brasilia, diachronically, and investigates each case’s specific representations of past, present, and future. By exploring these three episodes, the book shows how Latin America’s postcolonialism involved specific spatial dynamics that were inherently working over global socio-political geographies resulting from the legacy of a “long” colonial imagination. The text is divided into two parts. The first part discusses some theoretical questions concerning the very conceptualization of Latin American space and the importance of exploring a genealogy of its urban geographies. The second part analyses the themes proposed through the discussion of the “materiality” of specific historical examples. The section delves into urban transformations in the aforementioned capital cities and focuses on how iconic material forms are able to encapsulate the main socio-political features defining each country’s post-colonial project. The book aims to depict a historical geography capable of describing how controversial relations between power and knowledge had materialised in the shapes of the urban environment and had iconically contributed to the multifaceted production of the global area known as Latin America. Without any pretension to offer an all-embracing perspective, the book discusses the Latin America experience within the broader question concerning the genealogy of global socio-political geographies.
Download or read book The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata written by Samuel Brunk and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was Che Guevara, there was Emiliano Zapata, the charismatic revolutionary who left indelible marks on Mexican politics and society. The sequel to Samuel Brunk's 1995 biography of Zapata, The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata traces the power and impact of this ubiquitous, immortalized figure. Mining the massive extant literature on Zapata, supplemented by archival documents and historical newspaper accounts, Brunk explores frameworks of myth and commemoration while responding to key questions regarding the regime that emerged from the Zapatista movement, including whether it was spawned by a genuinely "popular" revolution. Blending a sophisticated analysis of hegemonic systems and nationalism with lively, accessible accounts of ways in which the rebel is continually resurrected decades after his death in a 1919 ambush, Brunk delves into a rich realm of artistic, geographical, militaristic, and ultimately all-encompassing applications of this charismatic icon. Examining all perspectives, from politicized commemorations of Zapata's death to popular stories and corridos, The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata is an eloquent, engaging portrait of a legend incarnate.
Download or read book Mexican Muralism written by Alejandro Anreus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive collection of essays, three generations of international scholars examines Mexican muralism in its broad artistic and historical contexts,from its iconic figures to their successors in Mexico, the United States, and across Latin America.
Download or read book Mexican Masters written by Oklahoma City Museum of Art and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book measures 9x12" to showcase works--displayed full page--by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as two artists who are not mentioned in the title: Gunther Gerzso and Luis Nishizawa. It is published in conjunction with a 2005- 2006 exhibition organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil. Editor and curator George is affiliated with the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; three other art historians, all based in Mexico, have contributed interpretive text. A photo of each artist and quotes from each one round out the book, along with an exhibition checklist and a bibliography.
Download or read book Apollinaire Cubism and Orphism written by Adrian Hicken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years before his death in 1918 Apollinaire?s reputation as poet and artistic animateur approached legendary proportions. This book is the first to present an extensive reassessment of Apollinaire?s role in the promotion of themes and iconography amongst his painter friends. Detailed analysis of the poetic subject matter of selected works of Dufy, Delaunay, de Chirico, Laurencin, Marcoussis, Metzinger, Picabia and Picasso is used to reconstruct the responses of these artists to Apollinaire?s artistic and aesthetic proclivities. Drawing attention to the poet?s immersion in the art and iconography of the French late-Renaissance and the seventeenth century, Adrian Hicken shows that the study of the permeation of Apollinairean and Orphic imagery in the work of artists with very different personalities presents a fascinating and pivotal episode in the history of Parisian modernism.
Download or read book Lipchitz and the Avant garde written by Jacques Lipchitz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing works from museums across North America, Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork. By breaking the volume and using different planes, Lipchitz created works that were a new force in the history of sculpture. His innovation of the transparents style in sculpture during the late 1920s was groundbreaking and was copied by many, including Picasso. At the outbreak of World War II the Jewish artist fled to New York, where he worked on increasingly monumental sculptures until his death in 1973. This substantive catalogue contains new essays by internationally renowned scholars and translated articles by contemporaries Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Joaquin Torres-Garcia that have not appeared in English before. Contributors include Jonathan Fineberg, Christopher Green, Jordana Mendelson, David O'Brien, Cathy Pntz, and Cecilia de Torres.
Download or read book Jos Clemente Orozco in the United States 1927 1934 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historia m nima La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX written by Carlos Monsiváis and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En esta obra póstuma, Carlos Monsiváis, con su estilo y erudición únicos, recorre un siglo de la vida cultural de México, si bien, como él mismo confiesa, ésta es una tarea inacabable a la que además se suma la brevedad de la obra, que le obliga a cerrar su crónica en la década de 1980, dejando fuera los movimientos y creadores de los dos últimos decenios del siglo XX. Su recorrido parte de la época del modernismo y pasa por todas las manifestaciones culturales que se desarrollan a lo largo de las siguientes décadas, como la narrativa de la Revolución, el muralismo, la cultura en los años veinte, los Contemporáneos, la poesía de la generación del 50 hasta llegar al año de la ruptura que representa 1968 y las manifestaciones culturales que de él se desprenden.
