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Rivera (Hardcover)
Andrea Kettenmann
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R474
Discovery Miles 4 740
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Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is a loud presence on the art historical
stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic
history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo,
advocate and adversary of Stalin's Soviet Union, and liberator and
traitor of Leon Trotsky. Vibrant, graphic, and often monumental,
Rivera's paintings carry the same live political and passionate
charge as his personal biography. Fusing European influences such
as Cubism with a socialist ideology and an exaltation of Mexico's
indigenous and popular heritage, he created a new iconography for
art history and for his country. He became one of the most
important figures in the Mexican mural movement and won
international acclaim for his public wall paintings, in which he
presented a utopian yet accessible vision of a post-revolutionary
Mexico. In 1931, Rivera was the subject of MoMA's second ever
monographic exhibition. This book explores the unique blend of
influence and ideology which secure Rivera's place as both a unique
and a universal painter, bound to the particular turbulent
experience of early 20th century Mexico, and yet preoccupied with
subjects such as revolution and class inequity which continue to
speak to us today. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic
Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection
ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a
detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the
artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a
concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory
captions
Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none
had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
(1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty
extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations;
along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as
Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and
Martin Munkacsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th
century art. After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a
painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929
placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the
cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her
work garnered praise from the poet Andre Breton, who added the
Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and
exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso,
Kandinsky, and Duchamp. We access the intimacy of Frida's
affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from
her personal diary, letters, and an extensive illustrated biography
featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida's home
and the center of her universe. This large-format XXL book allows
readers to admire Frida Kahlo's paintings like never before,
including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It
presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that
were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80
years, forming the most extensive study of Kahlo's work and life to
date.
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Kahlo (Hardcover)
Andrea Kettenmann
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R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways
expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the
age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and
childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary
art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out
at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a
passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her
experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair,
roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her
works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo
shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her
paintings as "the most sincere and real thing that I could do in
order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself." This
book introduces the rich body of Kahlo's work to explore her
unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a
painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.
About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has
evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed
chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist,
covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise
biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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