Dreaming with His Eyes Open
A Life of Diego Rivera
$29.95, £17.95 paperback
978-0-520-22408-7
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350 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 36 color illustrations, 50 b/w photographs
May 2000, Not available in British Commonwealth, Ireland; Include Canada
Categories: Art; Autobiographies & Biographies; Art History; Latin American Studies
May 2000, Not available in British Commonwealth, Ireland; Include Canada
Categories: Art; Autobiographies & Biographies; Art History; Latin American Studies
"We're not precisely meant to like the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) after reading Patrick Marnham's urbane and entertaining biography, Dreaming with His Eyes Open, but it's hard not to find him compelling in the way that roguish, larger-than-life characters can be."—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times Book Review
"Marnham's assiduously researched, wide-ranging and learned account of Rivera's life [is] the first full-scale biography published in over 35 years. . . . Rivera's ability to create a potent mythological representation of the Mexican experience based on Aztec archetypes was, according to Marnham, the key to his success and the source of his power as an artist."—Edward Abrahams, Washington Post Book World
"[A] thoroughly engrossing biography." —Publishers Weekly
"At last, a full-length biography of the Mexican painter and muralist Diego RiveraÉ"—London Review of Books
"Marnham's assiduously researched, wide-ranging and learned account of Rivera's life [is] the first full-scale biography published in over 35 years. . . . Rivera's ability to create a potent mythological representation of the Mexican experience based on Aztec archetypes was, according to Marnham, the key to his success and the source of his power as an artist."—Edward Abrahams, Washington Post Book World
"[A] thoroughly engrossing biography." —Publishers Weekly
"At last, a full-length biography of the Mexican painter and muralist Diego RiveraÉ"—London Review of Books
This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters.
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