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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Diego Rivera"”.
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Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
Diego Rivera was a master of creating visual languages to express his ideas and beliefs. Throughout his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is remembered today: visionary, rebel, lover; and how Mexico is known to the world: …
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Sacred, Sensual and Sublime: An Iconographic Study of the Female Nude in the Murals of Diego Rivera
<p>Diego Rivera (1886-1957) played a pivotal role in Mexico's artistic Renaissance. During one prolific decade (1922-1932), Rivera painted nine important mural cycles in which he helped to revive and perfect the tradition of fresco painting in Mexico. These murals expressed Rivera's hopes for an …
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
… since 1971, and a mural-cycle painted on site by Diego Rivera in 1929, constructs the region of Morelos and its popular movement---Zapatismo---as icons of national character. Finally, the Museo Nacional de Arte (National Museum of Art) presents a narrative of national art that re-casts Mexican …
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Poder de la influencia, El: relaciones artísticas desde España a México
… through her marriage to the Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, her talent and passion for painting was never determined by him. I do not attempt to negate the presence of one another in their artwork but rather propose that this is not the type of influence that is fed by love and encouragement …
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Avant-Garde and Socialist Dreamworlds in Latin America: Global and Local Designs, 1919-1939
… modern society. The chapters include muralism (Diego Rivera), periodicals (Amauta), and poetry (Vallejo). Building upon local and global geopolitical perspectives, these works constructed socialist dreamworlds, expressions of utopian desires to transform the world, against the backdrop of art's …
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The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter
… are placed alongside that of the work of Diego Rivera, a leader in the Mexican muralist movement, it becomes clear that Porter essentializes her Mexican subjects with the specific political goal in mind of furthering the revolution. Additionally, by crossing the generic lines separating …
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Soviet culture and cultural exchange in Mexico during the Cold War
… Luis Cháves Orozco, José Mancisidor, and Diego Rivera over the years. Luis Córdova and Efraín Huerta coordinated Cultura Soviética and Intercambio Cultural, respectively. An enormous group of collaborators from the fields of literature, science, the arts, and politics participated in their …
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Situating the Corrido in Diego Rivera’s Murals at the Ministry of Public Education
<p>On the top floor of Diego Rivera’s colossal mural cycle at the Ministry of Public Education, the artist painted a matte red banner with the lyrics of revolutionary ballads, known as <em>corridos</em>. Although there is a great amount of scholarship surrounding Rivera and his murals at the …