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Diego Rivera Pete HamillDiego Rivera (1886-1957) was the greatest Mexican artist of this century-an audacious muralist, voracious lover, and ardent leftist who befriended Pablo Picasso, married Frida Kahlo, and quarreled with Leon Trotsky. Now Pete Hamill, a best-selling novelist and one of America's most esteemed journalists, gives us an extraordinary book on Rivera's life and art. Hamill, who has lived and worked in Mexico, was himself once a young art student in Mexico City. In a book that is part biography and part appreciation, he turns a novelist's eye to Rivera's tempestuous career-and shows how, despite the political passions, Rivera created a body of work that still astonishes. Filled with reproductions of Rivera's murals, paintings, and drawings as well as documentary photographs, Diego Rivera is nothing less than a tour de force.
100 illustrations, 50 in full color, 208 pages, 9¾ x 9¾" Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York Available through Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art PETE HAMILL is the author of a best-selling memoir, A Drinking Life, a best-selling novel, Snow in August, and, most recently, News is a Verb and Why Sinatra Matters. He has been editor in chief of both the New York Daily News and the New York Post. He lives in New York City. |