Diego Rivera: Retrospective Cl

by Downs,Linda

• ISBN13: 9780393046090
• ISBN10: 0393046095
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In a career that spanned sixty years, Diego Rivera produced some of the most distinctive and socially powerful works in modern art. Rivera was, in a real sense, a twentieth-century renaissance man. He was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, book illustrator, one of the first collectors of pre-Columbian art, and a political activist.In both the United States and Mexico, Rivera's monumental frescos gave life to revolutionary themes, often offending critics as well as the public. In New York's Rockefeller Center, for instance, his murals were destroyed because of public outrage over their strongly pro-communist content. Throughout his mature works, on this continent and abroad, Rivera was a champion of the oppressed.This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. Its 200 color plates and 325 black-and-white photographs illustrate Rivera's life and work from his early years at the Mexican Academy of San Carlos and studies in Spain, his subsequent eleven-year sojourn in Paris and brief involvement with Cubism in the first part of this century, to his efforts to establish a truly Mexican style in the murals for which he is most famous. Accompanying Rivera's work are essays by noted scholars reevaluating his place in the history of modern art.This book was originally published to coincide with the first major North American retrospective ever mounted of the artist, at the Detroit Institute of the Arts, where Rivera's finest works in the United States'”the Detroit Industry Frescos'”remain as vivid today as when they were completed fifty years ago.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	9	(6)
Preface to the New Printing (1998)	15	(2)
Introduction	17	(5)
Linda Downs
Diego Rivera (1886-1957): A Chronology of His Art, Life and Times	22	(97)
Laurance P. Hurlburt
The Influence of the Classical Tradition, Cezanne, and Cubism on Rivera's Artistic Development	119	(6)
Jorge Hernandez Campos
Rivera and the Concept of Proletarian Art	125	(6)
Alicia Azuela
River's Concept of History	131	(8)
Ida Rodriguez-Prampolini
The Past Idealized: Diego Rivera's use of Pre-Columbian Imagery	139	(18)
Betty Ann Brown
The Influence of Diego Rivera on the Art of the United States during the 1930s and after	157	(28)
Francis V. O'Connor
Diego Rivera' Murals in Mexico and the United States	185	(4)
Luis Cardoza y Aragon
The Self-Portraits of Diego Rivera	189	(8)
Xavier Moyssen
The Portraits of Diego Rivera	197	(6)
Rita Eder
Rivera as a Draftsman	203	(12)
Ellen Sharp
An Iconographic Interpretation of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals in Terms of Their Orientation to the Cardinal Points of the Compass	215	(20)
Francis C. O'Connor
Mural Census	235	(102)
Stanton L. Catlin
Checklist of the Exhibition	337	(18)
Gina Alexander
Alicia Azuela
Bibliography	355	(14)
Gina Alexander
Alicia Azuela
Index of Works by Rivera	369	(3)
Photo Credits	372