The Fabulous Life Of Diego Rivera
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Mild Silver fish damage on jacket.
A landmark work of art biography, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent existence of one of Mexico's most celebrated muralists, tracing his rise from a precocious art student in Europe to a towering figure of 20th-century political and artistic life. Bertram D. Wolfe, who knew Rivera personally, presents an intimate and authoritative portrait that interweaves the painter's monumental public works with his passionate love affairs, his fierce Communist convictions, and his legendary rivalries. With vivid, novelistic prose, Wolfe illustrates how Rivera's massive frescoes — adorning the walls of Mexico City, Detroit, and San Francisco — became battlegrounds for ideological conflict, most famously when his Rockefeller Center mural was destroyed for including a portrait of Lenin. The narrative also details Rivera's complex relationship with fellow artist Frida Kahlo, painting their volatile union as a collision of two volcanic personalities. Authoritative, richly detailed, and compulsively readable, this biography stands as the definitive account of a man whose art and life were inseparable from the political upheavals of his era.
Author: Bertram D. Wolfe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Stein and Day
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Mild Silver fish damage on jacket.
A landmark work of art biography, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent existence of one of Mexico's most celebrated muralists, tracing his rise from a precocious art student in Europe to a towering figure of 20th-century political and artistic life. Bertram D. Wolfe, who knew Rivera personally, presents an intimate and authoritative portrait that interweaves the painter's monumental public works with his passionate love affairs, his fierce Communist convictions, and his legendary rivalries. With vivid, novelistic prose, Wolfe illustrates how Rivera's massive frescoes — adorning the walls of Mexico City, Detroit, and San Francisco — became battlegrounds for ideological conflict, most famously when his Rockefeller Center mural was destroyed for including a portrait of Lenin. The narrative also details Rivera's complex relationship with fellow artist Frida Kahlo, painting their volatile union as a collision of two volcanic personalities. Authoritative, richly detailed, and compulsively readable, this biography stands as the definitive account of a man whose art and life were inseparable from the political upheavals of his era.