Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman: Post-Revolutionary Architectural Anatomies
@article{OSullivan2019DiegoRA, title={Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman: Post-Revolutionary Architectural Anatomies}, author={Lucy O'Sullivan}, journal={Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies}, year={2019}, volume={28}, pages={253 - 275} }
Frida Kahlo once wrote that her husband, the great muralist Diego Rivera, was ‘fundamentally a constructor, an investigator and above all, an architect’. Delving into this unexplored aspect of his artistic production, this article reassesses Rivera’s muralism in light of his contribution to post-revolutionary architectural discourses and his relationship with the architect Juan O’Gorman to demonstrate how concepts of building design influenced his approach to visual composition. In 1931, O…
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