Dreaming with His Eyes Open

Disciplines Art Modern & Contemporary Art

About the Book

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.

About the Author

Patrick Marnham's books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa; The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, which won the Marsh Biography Award and was nominated for a 1994 Edgar Allen Poe Award; and So Far from God: A Journey to Central America, which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

Preface
Introduction A Small Town in Mexico

PART ONE: FABLES AND DREAMS

Chapter One Birth of a Fabulist
Guanajuato 1886-1893

Chapter Two Young Men in Waistcoats
Mexico City 1893-1906

PART TWO: THE LANDS OF REASON

Chapter Three The Empty Landscape
Spain 1907-1910

Chapter Four The Free Republic of Montparnasse
Mexico 1910-1911 / Paris 1911-1914

Chapter Five The Cubists Go to War
Paris 1914-1918

Chapter Six A Monster Emerges
Paris, Italy 1918-1921

PART THREE: REPAINTING THE WORLD

Chapter Seven The Bathers of Tehuantepec
A1exico 1921-1922

Chapter Eight A Pistol on the Scaffold
A1exico 1923-1927

Chapter Nine To Moscow and Back
A1exico and A1oscow 1927-1929

Chapter Ten Marriage to Frida
A1exico 1929-1930

Chapter Eleven North of the Border
San Francisco, Detroit, New York 193o-1933

PART FOUR: THE LAST DREAM
Chapter Twelve A Bed Too Far
A1exico 1934-1936

Chapter Thirteen A Surrealist Deathtrap
A1exico, San Francisco 1936-1940

Chapter Fourteen The Lord of Mictlan
A1exico 1941-1957

Appendix One: Chronology
Appendix Two: Major Mural Paintings
A Note on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index

Black-and-white illustrations
Colour illustrations