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Title: Diego Rivera by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0-8109-3234-2 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The life and the art. First rate!
Comment: Prior to reading Hamill's bio of Rivera I had read some of another, published the same year. I'm not sure why I was so cool to the book or why it left me irritated. But that would have been the end of my investigation of Rivera's life if I hadn't come across Hamill's book by accident.
I read a couple of pages and was hooked. Hamill is known to me as a fine journalist, editor and novelist but an art biographer? Yes! Yes! This book is a pleasure to read. The prose is clear, clean and engaging, yet it packs a lot of information. And what's the point of writing about a major painter and not printing any of his work? This book is filled with glorious, excellent color reproductions covering Rivera's entire life work. Hamill is not afraid to offer judgments but I thought they were fair and relevant. This is a solid piece of work. As a young man Hamill wanted to be a painter and went to Mexico City to study. He later lived in the city as a journalist. So there are many years of the love of Mexico and art behind this book.
If you want to know more about the Mexican revolution, the art scene in Paris around the years of WWI (Rivera accused Picasso of stealing ideas from him) how Mexico nurtured and esteemed its artists, and much more, read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Coffee Table Material
Comment: If you admire Rivera, buy this book. It sits on our coffee table and is very alluring. It makes a great gift for any fan of this extraordinary artist.
Submitted by the author of "I'm Living Your Dream Life."
Rating: 5
Summary: Blends both the highs and lows in his struggle
Comment: Unforgettable reading, Diego Rivera is a vivid, emotionally written biography of the famous Mexican artist, mural painter, and Communist activist Diego Rivera (1886-1957). Biographer Pete Hamill narration of Rivera's remarkable life is enhanced with Rivera's great works of art both in full color replications and through black-and-white photographs. With an informed and informative text more heavily weighted toward relating Rivera's life story than simply being a showcase of Rivera's great murals, Diego Rivera blends both the highs and lows in his struggle through life for meaning against a background of turbulent politics, as well as the overwhelming messages of his art.
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Title: Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros by Desmond Rochfort ISBN: 0811819280 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Frida : A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera ISBN: 0060085894 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera ISBN: 0060923199 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Frida Kahlo by Luis Martin Lozano, Luis-Martin Lozano ISBN: 0821227661 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 08 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: My Art, My Life : An Autobiography by Diego Rivera, with Gladys March ISBN: 0486269388 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 14 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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