Diego Rivera
Subtitle: the Detroit industry murals
By: Linda Bank Downs.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Kahlo, Frida.; Mural painting and decoration, Mexican -- Michigan -- Detroit -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.; Industries in art.
Other titles: Detroit industry murals
Description: "Diego Rivera considered the Detroit Industry Murals his finest paintings. Produced in 1932-33, they are the largest and most complex work of the Mexican muralist movement in America. Covering the four walls in an interior courtyard in the museum, they portray in detail the complex interplay of raw materials, manufacturing process, and human resources involved in the production and assembly of that emblem of modern culture, the automobile."--BOOK JACKET.

"This unusual book not only reproduces the murals in great detail for the first time (including a folding poster of the North and South walls) but also brings together documentary photographs of Rivera at work, historic photographs of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant made for the artist, extensive sketches and composition drawings, and the final full-scale cartoons made in preparing the walls for final painting."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-196) and index.
One folded col. ill. inserted.