{"product_id":"9783836504133-rivera","title":"Rivera","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePainter, Marxist activist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera is renowned as much for his active politics as for his monumental mural paintings. This introduction explores his unique and visionary renderings of a modern Mexico, combining communist passion, pre-Columbian heritage, and the influences of European modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiego Rivera (1886–1957)\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eexaltation of Mexico’s indigenous and popular heritage\u003c\/strong\u003e, he created a new iconography for art history and for his country. He became one of the most important figures in the \u003cstrong\u003eMexican mural movement\u003c\/strong\u003e and won international acclaim for his public wall paintings, in which he presented a \u003cstrong\u003eutopian yet accessible vision of a post-revolutionary Mexico\u003c\/strong\u003e. In 1931, Rivera was the \u003cstrong\u003esubject of MoMA’s second ever monographic exhibition\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book explores the \u003cstrong\u003eunique blend of influence and ideology\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003erevolution and class inequity\u003c\/strong\u003e which continue to speak to us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56537754370422,"sku":"9783836504133","price":16.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34504796.jpg?v=1761635283","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783836504133-rivera","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}