Book Description
A beautifully illustrated in-depth study of the most important North American work by the best-known Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. Early in the Depression, Diego Rivera was commissioned by Edsel Ford to create a series of murals in the gallery of the Detroit Institute of Arts, giant frescos whose theme would be America's industrial might. This volume studies the astonishing results and gives us a remarkably close look at Diego and his wife, Frida Kahlo. Rivera's Detroit Industry murals are one of this country's greatest treasures. In addition to providing full coverage and analysis of the murals, this volume includes chapters on the murals' planning and antecedents, Rivera's working methods (which can be read as a primer on frescos), Diego and Frida's lives for their nine months in Detroit, and the public's dramatic response to the strong socialist/communist themes in the works.
Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals FROM THE PUBLISHER
Diego Rivera considered the Detroit Industry Murals his finest paintings. Produced in 1932-33, they are the largest and most complex work of the Mexican muralist movement in America. Covering the four walls in an interior courtyard in the museum, they portray in detail the complex interplay of raw materials, manufacturing process, and human resources involved in the production and assembly of that emblem of modern culture, the automobile.. "This unusual book not only reproduces the murals in great detail for the first time (including a folding poster of the North and South walls) but also brings together documentary photographs of Rivera at work, historic photographs of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant made for the artist, extensive sketches and composition drawings, and the final full-scale cartoons made in preparing the walls for final painting.
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