Rivera in America
DVD - 1999 DVD 759.972 Ri 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
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Call Number: DVD 759.972 Ri
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program American masters in 1988.
Narrator, Luis Valdez.
Discusses painter Diego Rivera and his stay in the United States during the 1930s. Looks at murals he created in San Francisco, Detroit and New York. Examines how Rivera's depictions of scenes of American life on the walls of community buildings influenced the American conception of public art and provided the inspiration for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's WPA program to adorn public buildings with art.
DVD.
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SERIES
Ladies Library collection.
American masters (Television program)
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[United States?] : Alturas Films, c1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Tejada-Flores, Rick.
Valdez, Luis.
Alturas Films.
SUBJECTS
Rivera, Diego, -- 1886-1957.
Painters -- Mexico -- Biography.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican.
Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century.
Nonfiction television programs.