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Dreaming with His Eyes Open by Patrick Marnham

Dreaming with His Eyes Open A Life of Diego Rivera

by Patrick Marnham (Author)
May 2000
First Edition
Paperback
$34.95
Title Details

Rights: Not available in British Comm, Ireland; Incl. Canada
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780520224087
Trim Size: 6 x 9.25
Illustrations: 36 color illustrations, 50 b/w photographs

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About the Book About the Author Table of Contents Related Books

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