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This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 368
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
03 May 2000
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520224087
Format: Paperback
Patrick Marnham's books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa; The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, which won the Marsh Biography Award and was nominated for a 1994 Edgar Allen Poe Award; and So Far from God: A Journey to Central America, which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Preface
Introduction A Small Town in Mexico
PART ONE: FABLES AND DREAMS
Chapter One Birth of a Fabulist
Guanajuato 1886-1893
Chapter Two Young Men in Waistcoats
Mexico City 1893-1906
PART TWO: THE LANDS OF REASON
Chapter Three The Empty Landscape
Spain 1907-1910
Chapter Four The Free Republic of Montparnasse
Mexico 1910-1911 / Paris 1911-1914
Chapter Five The Cubists Go to War
Paris 1914-1918
Chapter Six A Monster Emerges
Paris, Italy 1918-1921
PART THREE: REPAINTING THE WORLD
Chapter Seven The Bathers of Tehuantepec
A1exico 1921-1922
Chapter Eight A Pistol on the Scaffold
A1exico 1923-1927
Chapter Nine To Moscow and Back
A1exico and A1oscow 1927-1929
Chapter Ten Marriage to Frida
A1exico 1929-1930
Chapter Eleven North of the Border
San Francisco, Detroit, New York 193o-1933
PART FOUR: THE LAST DREAM
Chapter Twelve A Bed Too Far
A1exico 1934-1936
Chapter Thirteen A Surrealist Deathtrap
A1exico, San Francisco 1936-1940
Chapter Fourteen The Lord of Mictlan
A1exico 1941-1957
Appendix One: Chronology
Appendix Two: Major Mural Paintings
A Note on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index
Black-and-white illustrations
Colour illustrations
Introduction A Small Town in Mexico
PART ONE: FABLES AND DREAMS
Chapter One Birth of a Fabulist
Guanajuato 1886-1893
Chapter Two Young Men in Waistcoats
Mexico City 1893-1906
PART TWO: THE LANDS OF REASON
Chapter Three The Empty Landscape
Spain 1907-1910
Chapter Four The Free Republic of Montparnasse
Mexico 1910-1911 / Paris 1911-1914
Chapter Five The Cubists Go to War
Paris 1914-1918
Chapter Six A Monster Emerges
Paris, Italy 1918-1921
PART THREE: REPAINTING THE WORLD
Chapter Seven The Bathers of Tehuantepec
A1exico 1921-1922
Chapter Eight A Pistol on the Scaffold
A1exico 1923-1927
Chapter Nine To Moscow and Back
A1exico and A1oscow 1927-1929
Chapter Ten Marriage to Frida
A1exico 1929-1930
Chapter Eleven North of the Border
San Francisco, Detroit, New York 193o-1933
PART FOUR: THE LAST DREAM
Chapter Twelve A Bed Too Far
A1exico 1934-1936
Chapter Thirteen A Surrealist Deathtrap
A1exico, San Francisco 1936-1940
Chapter Fourteen The Lord of Mictlan
A1exico 1941-1957
Appendix One: Chronology
Appendix Two: Major Mural Paintings
A Note on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index
Black-and-white illustrations
Colour illustrations