Conversations with Diego Rivera
Subtitle: the monster in his labyrinth
By: by Alfredo Cardona Peña ; a translation by Alvaro Cardona-Hine of El monstruo en su laberinto
Contributors: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957, interviewee; Cardona-Hine, Alvaro, translator; Cardona Peña, Alfredo
Edition: First English edition.
Publisher: New Village Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781613320297; 9781613320280; 9781613320327
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Painters; Interviews
Work titles: Monstruo en su laberinto
Description: "These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his own time: an artist who escaped being lynched on more than one occasion, a painter so controversial that his public murals inspired movements, or, like the work commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, were ordered town down, Here in his San Angelin studio, we hear Rivera's feelings about the elitist aspect of paintings in museums, his motivations to create public art for the people, and his memorable, unedited expostions on the art, culture, and politics of Mexico"--Book flap.
Table of contents: title: At the foot of the fountain; title: The aesthetics of the valley; title: Popular art; title: The pre-Hispanic business; title: Critique and critics; title: Mexican painting; title: Rivera in action.