Conversations with Diego Rivera

A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Pe?a disclose Rivera’s iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. [/b][b] These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his own time; an artist who escaped being lynched on more than one occasion, a painter so controversial that his public murals inspired movements, or, like the work commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, were ordered torn down. Here in his San Angel?n studio, we hear Rivera’s feelings about the…