Diego Rivera: The Complete Murals

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A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico’s most important artist—along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo—Diego Rivera (1886–1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera’s most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan.

This volume features numerous large-scale details of the murals, allowing their various components and subtleties to be closely examined. In addition to the murals is a vast selection of paintings, vintage photos, documents, and drawings from public and private collections around the world, many of which the whereabouts were previously unknown to scholars and whose inclusion here is thanks to the most intense research performed on Rivera’s work since his death. Texts include an illustrated biography and essays by prominent art historians offering interpretations of each mural. One could not ask for a more comprehensive study of Rivera’s oeuvre; finally his work is the subject of the sweeping retrospective it deserves.

The authors

Luis-Martín Lozano is an art historian specializing in the study of different aspects of modernism in Mexican and Latin American art. He is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and has conducted extensive research on the work of both Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, as well as publishing widely on both artists. Lozano was formerly the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, and has been a guest curator for many art institutions in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and particularly in Mexico.

Diego Rivera's grandson Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera has worked as editor of the magazines Punto Cero en Literatura, El Faro revista de literatura y arte and M'hija, together with Carlos Jaurena. He founded Kahlo-Coronel Fotogalería, Mexico’s first private photo-gallery, in 1987. His collection of Mexican popular pottery is the world’s most extensive, including more than 15,000 pieces from the 16th century to the present day. He has curated more than 100 exhibitions for art galleries, museums, and biennials and has written 71 publications.

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Luis-Martín Lozano, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera
Hardcover, 9.8 x 13.4 in., 7.76 lb, 636 pages
Edition: Spanish

Frida Kahlo at Home

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Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.

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178 pages
Dimensions: 9.15 x 0.9 x 10.5 inches

Frida Kahlo Her Universe

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Frida Kahlo: Her Universe, published under a joint imprint by Editorial RM and Museo Frida Kahlo, allows us to refresh and bring up to date the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts, and emotions generated around two fundamental and iconic figures in modern Mexico: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Based on the 2013 edition, sponsored by Bank of America and produced in collaboration with the magazine Vogue Mexico and Latin America, this new edition gathers a range of essays by specialists on the various subjects it addresses.

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Author: VV. AA.
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 22.5 x 31 cm
Language: English
Year of publication: 2021

Frida Kahlo Making Herself Up

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After her death, Diego Rivera locked away Frida's possessions for 50 years. In 2004, her bedroom opened to the public for the first time through "Frida Kahlo Making Herself Up," you get to look at Frida's life and her unique sense of style.

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Edited by: Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa
Published 2008, V&B Publishing
Pages 256
Approximately: 11 L x 8.5 W inches

Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings

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Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. One of the key figures in Mexican revolutionary modern art, she was also a pioneer of the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism. This XXL monograph combines all of Kahlo’s 152 paintings with rarely seen photographs, diary pages, letters, and an illustrated biography.

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Hardcover, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 11.91 lb, 624 pages
Includes storage box

Frida Kahlo: Her Photos

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The perfect gift for Frida lovers.

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When Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) died in 1954, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicer to turn her family home, the fabled Blue House, into a museum. Pellicer selected some paintings, drawings, photographs, books and ceramics, maintaining the space just as Kahlo and Rivera had arranged it to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings and letters, as well as over 6,000 photographs collected by Kahlo over the course of her life, were put away in bathrooms that had been converted into storerooms.

This remarkable collection remained hidden for more than half a century. A few years ago the storerooms, wardrobes, and trunks that safeguarded it were opened.

The collection of photographs is a treasure that reveals the tastes and interests of the famous couple, not only through the images themselves but also through the annotations made on them.

Frida’s collection constitutes a roll call of great photographers: Man Ray, Brassaï, Martin Munkacsi, Pierre Verger, George Hurrel, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Gisèle Freund, and many others, including Frida Kahlo herself. It is likely that many of the photographs in the collection were taken by her, though we can only be sure of the few that she decided to sign in 1929.

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Author: Frida Kahlo
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 524
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 in

Kahlo Hardcover Book

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Feminist icon, symbol of Mexican culture, political activist, groundbreaking artist: discover the many facets of Frida Kahlo , who transformed the afflictions of her life into unremittingly powerful paintings. In this introduction, Kahlo's body of bold, arresting works are presented alongside her turbulent life to shed light on the audacious face glaring defiantly from her self-portraits.

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Hardcover
8.3 x 10.2 in.
96 pages

Mexico The Cookbook

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Mexico: The Cookbook is the definitive bible of home-cooking from Mexico. With a culinary history dating back 9,000 years, Mexican food draws influences from Aztec and Mayan Indians and is renowned for its use of fresh aromatic ingredients, colorful presentations and bold food combinations.

The book features more than 650 delicious and authentic recipes that can be easily recreated at home. From tamales, fajitas, and moles to cactus salad, blue crab soup, and melon seed juice, the recipes are a celebration of the fresh flavors and ingredients from a country whose cuisine is revered around the world.

Organized by food type/style (Street Food, Starters, Drinks, Fish and Seafood, Meat and Poultry, Vegetables, Pulses and Rice, and Dessert), Mexico: The Cookbook also includes an extensive introduction to Mexican culinary history, ingredients, and techniques, while a Chef Menu section proffers inspirational recipes and menus by some of the world's most prominent Mexican chefs.

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Format: Hardback
Size: 270 x 180 mm (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 in)
Pages: 704 pp
Illustrations: 200 illustrations

Mi Cocina By Rick Martínez

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Mexican Food Writer Rick Martínez takes you on a culinary journey through 32 states and 156 cities in Mexico. "Mi Cocina" recipes are based on his travels and experiences throughout the diverse regions of Mexico.

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By: Rick Martínez
Photographs by: Ren Fuller
Published 2022
Approximately:10.5 L x 8.5 W inches

Oaxaca Home Cooking From The Heart Of Mexico By Bricia Lopez

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It's no secret that Oaxaca is the culinary heart of Mexico.

Since opening its doors in 1994, Guelaguetza restaurant has been the center of life for the Oaxacan community of Los Angeles.

Founded by the Lopez family, Guelaguetza has been offering traditional Oaxacan food for 25 years. The first true introduction to Oaxacan cuisine by a native family, each dish articulates their story from Oaxaca to the streets of Los Angeles and beyond.

Showcasing the “soul food” of Mexico, "Oaxaca" offers 140 authentic, yet accessible recipes using some of the purest pre-Hispanic and indigenous ingredients available.

From their signature pink horchata to the formula for the Lopez’s award-winning mole negro, "Oaxaca" demystifies this essential cuisine.

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By Bricia Lopez & Javier Cabral
Pages 288
Approximately: 10.5 L x 8.5 W inches
Publish October 2019
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Rivera Hardcover Book

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Painter, Marxist activist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera is renowned as much for his active politics as for his monumental mural paintings. This introduction explores his unique and visionary renderings of a modern Mexico, combining communist passion, pre-Columbian heritage, and the influences of European modernism.

Details: Hardcover, 8.3 x 10.2 in., 1.24 lb, 96 pages