Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera.(Review)

Commonweal | March 26, 1999| | Copyright

Patrick Marnham Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 344 pp. Donna Gustafson

Arguably the greatest mural painter of the twentieth century, the Mexican artist Diego Rivera was also a superb storyteller and a man who relished the attention of the press, the public, and beautiful women. The biographies of Rivera and his third wife, the painter Frida Kahlo, are surrounded by fables, some invented by themselves, others the result of their being stars in the international political wars that consumed so many intellectuals and artists between the two world wars. The difficult task that ...

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