Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals

Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera

ISBN 10: 3836591197 / ISBN 13: 9783836591195

Editore: Taschen Gmbh Sep 2022, 2022

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Neuware -Diego Rivera (1886-1957) gilt in Südamerika als Volksheld und als wichtigster mexikanischer Künstler. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Frida Kahlo widmete er sein Leben der Kunst und dem Kommunismus. Nachdem er die Jahre um 1910 in Europa verbracht hatte und dort vom Kubismus beeinflusst worden war, kehrte er nach Mexiko zurück und begann mit der Arbeit an seinen überdimensionalen Wandgemälden, die ihn berühmt machten. Mit Hilfe dieser Werke brachte er der Arbeiterklasse soziale und politische Botschaften näher und wurde in ihren Reihen als Prophet gefeiert. Man lud ihn sogar in die Vereinigten Staaten ein, um auch dort tätig zu sein - Rivera sorgte für handfeste Kontroversen, als er Lenin auf einem Wandgemälde im Rockefeller Center in New York verewigte (das Bild wurde noch vor seiner Fertigstellung zerstört). Riveras bedeutendstes Werk ist Detroit Industry (1932), eine Sammlung von 27 Fresken im Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan. Dieser Band enthält zahlreiche großformatige Ausschnitte der Wandgemälde und ermöglicht so eine genaue Betrachtung ihrer Komponenten und Details. Zudem enthält es eine umfangreiche Auswahl an Gemälden, alten Fotos, Dokumenten und Skizzen aus Privatsammlungen in aller Welt - viele dieser Stücke waren bis dato unbekannt und zeugen von den exakten Recherchen der Rivera-Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte. Die Texte umfassen eine illustrierte Biografie und Essays prominenter Kunsthistoriker, die jedes Wandgemälde interpretieren. Man könnte sich keine umfassendere Studie zu Riveras uvre wünschen - eine längst verdiente Retrospektive! 636 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals
• Editore: Taschen Gmbh Sep 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3836591197
• ISBN 13: 9783836591195
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 348 L x 263 A x 55 P (millimetri) 348 millimetri di larghezza per 263 millimetri di altezza per 55 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 3936 grammi

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A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico’s most important artist―along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo―Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera’s most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan.

This volume 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 his work is the subject of the sweeping retrospective it deserves.

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Diego Rivera's grandson Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera has worked as editor of the magazines Punto Cero en Literatura, El Faro revista de literatura y arte and M'hija, together with Carlos Jaurena. He founded Kahlo-Coronel Fotogalería, Mexico’s first private photo-gallery, in 1987. His collection of Mexican popular pottery is the world’s most extensive, including more than 15,000 pieces from the 16th century to the present day. He has curated more than 100 exhibitions for art galleries, museums, and biennials and has written 71 publications.

Luis-Martín Lozano is an art historian specializing in the study of the creative processes of modernist artists in Mexico and Latin America. He is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and has conducted extensive research on the work of both Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, as well as publishing widely on both artists. Lozano was formerly the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico, and has been a guest curator for many art institutions in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and particularly in Mexico.