Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera - Tapa dura

The first definitive biography of the great Mexican artist and revolutionary in more than forty years explores the the life and work of the controversial Diego Rivera, his education, the influence of his native Mexico, his relationship with Frida Kahlo, and his creative artistry. 20,000 first printing.

ting biography--the first in over forty years--of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary (and twice-married husband of Frida Kahlo), captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of this century's most gifted and controversial painters.

Drawing on his extensive travels and research, Patrick Marnham explores a character who was, in every sense, larger than life. We are introduced to the rural Mexico, full of mystery and turbulence, that shapes the enormously imaginative young Rivera's worldview--and a place that would remain his most enduring creative influence. We see the young apprentice leave Mexico for Spain on a government grant and then go on to Italy, where he first encounters the work of the great fresco painters that will change his life and art forever; to Paris, where he settles in Montparnasse at the epicenter of the legendary artistic circle living there at the time,  including Picasso (both his great friend and his rival), Mod