{"product_id":"diego-rivera-the-complete-murals-9783836591195","title":"Diego Rivera. the Complete Murals","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Luis-Martín Lozano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - Monographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist--along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo--\u003cstrong\u003eDiego Rivera\u003c\/strong\u003e (1886-1957) led a passionate life \u003cstrong\u003edevoted to art and communism\u003c\/strong\u003e. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the \u003cstrong\u003eCubist movement\u003c\/strong\u003e, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed \u003cstrong\u003esocial and political issues\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003edepicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City\u003c\/strong\u003e (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera's most remarkable work is his \u003cem\u003e1932 Detroit Industry\u003c\/em\u003e, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This volume features numerous \u003cstrong\u003elarge-scale details of the murals, allowing their various components and subtleties to be closely examined\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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 \u003cstrong\u003epreviously unknown to scholars\u003c\/strong\u003e and whose inclusion here is thanks to the \u003cstrong\u003emost intense research performed on Rivera's work since his death\u003c\/strong\u003e. Texts include an illustrated biography and essays by prominent art historians offering interpretations of each mural. \u003cstrong\u003eOne could not ask for a more comprehensive study of Rivera's oeuvre; finally his work is the subject of the sweeping retrospective it deserves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45029567922327,"sku":"9783836591195","price":7363.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783836591195.webp?v=1767896428","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/diego-rivera-the-complete-murals-9783836591195","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}