My Art, My Life: An Autobiography - Brossura

Rivera, Diego; March, Gladys

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ISBN 10: 0486269388 ISBN 13: 9780486269382

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1992

Riassunto

"Engrossing as a novel ... throws a clear white light on one of the most spectacular artists of our time." — Chicago Sunday Tribune
This remarkable autobiography began with a newspaper interview the artist gave journalist Gladys March in 1944. From then until the artist's death in 1957, she spent several months each year with Rivera, eventually filling 2,000 pages with his recollections and interpretations of his art and life. Written in the first person, this book is a richly revealing document of the painter who revolutionized modern mural painting, was a principal figure in launching the "Mexican Renaissance," and is ranked among the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
As the colorful narrative unfolds, Diego Rivera seems always to be in the midst of political, artistic, and romantic turmoil. As the reviewer for The New Republic observed, "Rivera reveals a keen appreciation of this prowess in art, sex, and politics, and the record seems to be complete on the series of spectacular rows he got into over all three."
The book details his bold confrontations with dictators and presidents, the battles that erupted over his murals in Rockefeller Center and the Hotel del Prado, his tempestuous marriages to Lupe Marin and artist Frida Kahlo, and much, much more. "There is no lack of exciting material. A lover at nine, a cannibal at 18, by his own account, Rivera was prodigiously productive of art and controversy." — San Francisco Chronicle. 21 halftones.

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Foreword by Gladys March "GEOGRAPHICAL, GENEALOGICAL" TALE OF A GOAT AND A MOUSE THE THREE OLD GENTLEMEN WELCOME THE NEW ICONOCLAST MY THREE AMBITIONS I BEGIN TO DRAW WE MOVE TO MEXICO CITY SCHOOLS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF LOVE THE BEGINNING AND END OF A MILITARY CAREER AT THE SAN CARLOS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS THREE EARLY MASTERS POSADA PRE-CONQUEST ART AN EXPERIMENT IN CANNIBALISM MY FIRST GRANT MURILLO ATL PASSAGE OF ANGER MY SPANISH FRIENDS DESOLATE LANDSCAPES CHECKBOOKS IN MY FINGERS ART STUDENT IN PARIS PRIVATE PROPERTY NO MORE CÉZANNES THE SUN WORSHIPPERS OF BRUGES BEGGARS IN TOP HATS A QUALIFIED SUCCESS WHERE I WAS IN 1910 HOMECOMING! A WITCHCRAFT CURE REVOLUTIONARY WITH A PAINTBOX A PLOT TO KILL DÍAZ DEHESA SEA DUTY REUNION WITH ANGELINE PICASSO WAR YOUR PAINTING IS LIKE THE OTHERS'! MARIEVNA AN END AND A BEGINNING IN ITALY I AM REBORN: 1921 LUPE AN APPARITION OF FRIDA THE MEXICAN RENAISSANCE THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CHAPINGO HITLER STALIN MOSCOW SKETCHES AN INSPIRATION H.P. THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIO MELLA I AM EXPELLED FROM THE PARTY CUERNAVACA FRIDA BECOMES MY WIFE A BID TO PAINT IN THE SAN FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE ONE-MAN SHOW IN THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART A VISIT WITH HENRY FORD THE BATTLE OF DETROIT FRIDA'S TRAGEDY HOLOCAUST IN ROCKEFELLER CENTER RECONSTRUCTION THE NAZIS LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH ME PANI LOSES AN EYE AN INVITATION FROM MUSSOLINI FRIDA: TRIUMPH AND ANGUISH TROTSKY THE ENORMOUS NECKTIE A VISIT WITH CHARLIE CHAPLIN A SALUTE BY THE U. S. NAVY TROTSKY AGAIN?DEAD A SECOND TIME WITH FRIDA MORE POPULAR THAN WENDELL WILLKIE "PIN-UPS, SALOON STYLE" A HOME FOR MY IDOLS A SUNDAY IN ALAMEDA PARK CARDINAL DOUGHERTY DEFENDS AFTERMATHS UNDERWATER ANOTHER STORM CANCER YET ANOTHER STORM FRIDA DIES EMMA?I AM HERE STILL "Appendix: Statements by Angeline Belloff, Lupe Marín, Frida Kahlo, and Emma Hurtado" Index

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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.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0486269388
• ISBN 13: 9780486269382
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224