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Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals | 
| Author: Linda Bank Downs
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 352670
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 202
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 7.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0393045293
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.972
EAN: 9780393045291
ASIN: 0393045293
Publication Date: February 2000
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Product Description
Early in the Great Depression, Diego Rivera was commissioned by Edsel Ford to create a series of murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts, giant frescoes whose theme would be America's industrial might. This volume analyzes the results, and provides a look at Rivera and his wife, Frieda Kahlo. It includes chapters on the murals' planning and antecedents, Rivera's methods, and the public's response to the works.
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Viva Rivera, Viva Detroit! November 26, 2000
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
For anyone who has ever been fascinated with Diego Rivera and his works, this is a wonderfully detailed guide to the Detroit Industry Murals. Readible either from cover-to-cover or in chapters, this book is filled throughout with photos, historic background, interviews and amazingly interesting details to all that went into the Detroit Industry Murals. Starting with other Rivera murals located across the United States, Downs leads into the situation of Henry Ford wanting a depiction of Detroit and the auto industry for a neglected garden gallery. A chapter details the fresco process used by Rivera during this immense project, and is skippable for those not interested in art technique. Another chapter details how Rivera and his wife, artist Fridah Kahlo, spend their time in the Motor City. The especially amazing introduction tells the story of how in 1979 Detroit Institute of Art staff found in a dusty closet the original "cartoons" (full size pencil sketches) that Diego Rivera had made during the planning and layout of the murals. Downs ends the book with reactions to the finished project, which ranged from churches outrage to extreme pride for the city's auto workers, which the work most positively depicted. Because of the artist's political convictions (Mexican communist) the murals were almost destroyed during the Cold War and had to be protected under armed guard. Detroit is the last place you would expect to find the masterpiece of the Mexican muralist movement's greatest son. Just like it's topic, this book is an amazing and unexpected masterpiece.
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