Diego Rivera – His Life and Times –

“… This biography is an ‘authorized’ one only in the sense that Diego Rivera has agreed to my doing it and has given me free access to his papers and correspondence files. It is not authorized in the sense that he has exercised any censorship over what I have written or even seen a word of it before it went to print. …”

Contents:
A child is born
Wonder child
The education of an artist
A painter in search of himself
Mexican interlude
Painter’s Paris
On the road to cubism
Cubism by the square yard
War-time Paris
The road back
Angelina waits
Rediscovery of Mexico
A false start
A red star rises
Brief brotherhood
A world on a wall
Guadalup Marin
Struggle for survival
Journey to Moscow
Cast into outer darkness
Frieda Kahlo
Refolution in the academy
Painter of palaces
Discovering America
“This new age”
The battle of Rockefeller Center
Solitude
No more walls
List of Rivera paintings on public view
Partial bibliography
Index