Diego Rivera, The Complete Murals
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Diego Rivera, The Complete Murals Details
From the Publisher This lavish volume - the first book to feature Rivera's complete mural oeuvre, including newly discovered works - features numerous large-scale details of the murals, allowing their various components and subtleties to be closely examined. In addition to the murals is a vast selection of paintings, vintage photos, documents, and drawings from public and private collections around the world many of which the whereabouts were previously unknown to scholars and whose inclusion here is thanks to the most intense research performed on Rivera's work since his death. Texts include an illustrated biography and essays by prominent art historians offering interpretations of each mural. One could not ask for a more comprehensive study of Rivera's oeuvre; finally, a half-century after Rivera's death, his work is the subject of the sweeping retrospective it deserves. Read more From the Author Contributing authors: María Estela Duarte Sanchez, Laura González Matute, Renato González Mello, Catha Paquette, Ana Isabel Pérez Gavilán Ávila, Nadia Ugalde Gómez, Marina Vázquez Ramos, James Weschler Read more See all Editorial Reviews
Reviews
My dreams have come true!! This book, which formerly was something I could not afford in the super jumbo size, has another life!! Taschen has outdone itself with bringing Diego Rivera and all of his masterpieces to us in this wonderful new volume!! The size is perfect, at first I thought maybe it was too narrow, but the height makes it work, on looking through it the first time. His genius at color and composition and the richness of the story line is mesmerizing!! It seems to me in his case, more is more, is very effective, with these huge murals. Definitely a man of the people, for the 99%!! And there is his wonderful wife, and equally brilliant artist, Frida Kahlo on the cover, where she should be, and luckily they had some time together, sadly cut short by her horrendous health, as a result of some very unfortunate luck. We are richer that they both existed, and the magnificent art they left us we will cherish forever!! I can see that I will need to go through this monograph a number of times to completely take it all in, such a jewel of a book . The fold out pages are especially brilliant and mind boggling. The book appears so dream like, but it is real, Taschen , with it's reputation of providing high quality art at an extremely affordable price, has another hit on it's hands!! Bravo!!!
