Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits 1913-1917 Hardcover

Sylvia Navarrete

This catalogue will accompany an important exhibition organized by the Meadows Museum entitled Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits 1913 - 1917 that will take place from 21st June to 20th September, 2009. It is focused on the study of the formative stage of Rivera's career during the second decade of the 20th century, which he spent in Paris and traveling in Europe as a member of avant-garde intellectual circles. This project marks the first time that this aspect of Rivera's work will have been comprehensively studied, thus making a significant contribution to the scholarship on his life and work.

9780856676642

English

Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd

1/Dec/09

112

Sylvia Navarrete (curator of the exhibition) served as professor of contemporary art and art criticism at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, 'La Esmeralda', in Mexico. She is the author of various books and monographs, including Miguel Covarrubias, artist y explorador and Miradas y testimonies. Serge Fauchereau, after serving as professor of American Literature at New York University and the University of Texas, Austin, became the commissioner of international exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has published extensively on modern artists such as Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Piet Mondrian. Anna Indych-Lopez is assistant professor of art history in the art department of The City College of New York (CCNY). Recent publications include essays on modern Mexican art in Art Bulletin, the exhibition catalogue Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted and A Principality of its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society, amongst others.

Serge Fauchereau

Anna Indych-Lopez