Name: Diego Rivera
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Author: José Luis Pescador
ISBN: 9781914224003

Type

Physical Book

Author

Francisco de la Mora

Illustrated by

José Luis Pescador

Publisher

Selfmadehero

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

184

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.9 x 18.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781914224003

Edition No.

Synopsis "Diego Rivera "

Explores the passions and contradictions--both human and political--that turned the prolific and brilliant painter Diego Rivera into an increasingly universal cultural figure Diego Rivera was a revolutionary painter in more ways than one. Attending art school at 11, by his twenties he was counted among the most influential figures of the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, including Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, and Gris. Rivera's murals, both in his native Mexico and the United States, reflect the contradictory turbulence of his character and times. He met Lenin in Paris, Stalin in Moscow, and offered refuge to Trotsky during his Mexican exile. Meanwhile, his work was commissioned by giants of capitalism: Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. Rivera's indefatigable industry was matched by his zest for life, accumulating hundreds of lovers and four wives--including Frida Kahlo, whose formidable partnership is also one of the great love stories of art history. This beautifully realized graphic novel tells the story of the extraordinary life and times of an artist for whom myth and reality fused.

José Luis Pescador

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Jose Luis Pescador (Mexico City, 1979). Visual artist, comic book author, amateur archaeologist, and dad to Romina and Santiago. He has published his work with La Cúpula Ediciones (Spain); Fantagraphics and Decade Press (USA); Kiss Comics (France); Tank Magazine (United Kingdom); Raíces and Turner (Mexico), among other publishers. He has exhibited individually and collectively in museums and art spaces. In 2010, he directed the historical comic project Serie Bicentenario, involving writers and some of Mexico's best cartoonists. He has received a couple of grants from the Guanajuato State Institute of Culture for the comic project The Conquest of Mexico (1998) and the Obese Monumental painting series (2002). In 2008, the Cultural Institute of León supported with a grant the production of the comic These Ruins You See, an adaptation of the novel by Jorge Ibargüengoitia. He has received support from Fonca for El Marambo in Havana (2014) and Sensational Marambo Comix (2019)

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