DIEGO RIVERA AND THE REVOLUTION
MEXICO IN TIMES OF CHANGE

Museo Estudio Diego Rivera: DIEGO RIVERA AND THE REVOLUTION: MEXICO IN TIMES OF CHANGE. Austin: Mexic-Arte Museum with the Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, 1993. First edition. A fine hardcover book in a fine dust jacket. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

7.75 x 8 hardocver book with 128 pages and 115 color and b/w images of Rivera's artowrk, murals, correspondence, photographs, etc. Catalogue for an exhibit in Austin, Texas sponsored by National Institute of Fine Arts, Diego Rivera Studio Museum and Mexic-Arte Museum. A scarce book.

Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was established as a painter by age twenty. In 1907, Rivera travelled to Europe and was exposed to the concept of Revolution via his Russian friends. The First World War broke out in Europe, and in Mexico the revolutionary folk hero Emiliano Zapata promoted returning the land to the people.  It was in these years Diego Rivera became a revolutionary himself, and felt the call of his country.  His friend, David Sternberg, the Soviet People's Commissar of Fine Arts had invited him to Russia, and Diego was tempted to go, but in 1921 he returned to Mexico instead. In addition to his painting activities, which by now was focused increasingly on murals, Diego Rivera participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors in the autumn of 1922, and later that year he joined the Mexican Communist Party. In the autumn of 1927 Diego took a trip to the Soviet Union, as a member of an official delegation of Mexican Communist Party functionaries and various workers representatives, to take part in the tenth anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution. 

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