Tina Modotti (Phaidon 55's) by Margaret Hooks  (3)
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Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution by Letizia Argenteri
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Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years by Sarah Lowe
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Apprentice to and lover of photographer Edward Weston in Mexico during the 1920s, Italian-born activist Modotti developed at that time a not widely known but consequential body of camera work of her own: portrait, still-life, architectural and documentary photos, the latter applied in large part to further the cause of world communism. Here, in a monumental feat of biographical research and picture assemblage for a current exhibition, art historian Lowe apparently tells all that can be known about this revolutionary artist?her friendships with populist painters Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros et al.; her succession of lovers, one of whom was assassinated; her own imprisonment and deportation; her work for the Soviet International Red Aid in Berlin, Moscow and combat zones of the Spanish Civil War. As seen here, taken as a whole, Modotti's oeuvre seems to mock in equal measure Weston's dictum of art for art's sake and the conventional view that propaganda cannot be art. Her pictures of campesinos at work and on parade are as arresting as her twin lilies seen plain.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Apprentice to and lover of photographer Edward Weston in Mexico during the 1920s, Italian-born activist Modotti developed at that time a not widely known but consequential body of camera work of her own: portrait, still-life, architectural and documentary photos, the latter applied in large part to further the cause of world communism. Here, in a monumental feat of biographical research and picture assemblage for a current exhibition, art historian Lowe apparently tells all that can be known about this revolutionary artist?her friendships with populist painters Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros et al.; her succession of lovers, one of whom was assassinated; her own imprisonment and deportation; her work for the Soviet International Red Aid in Berlin, Moscow and combat zones of the Spanish Civil War. As seen here, taken as a whole, Modotti's oeuvre seems to mock in equal measure Weston's dictum of art for art's sake and the conventional view that propaganda cannot be art. Her pictures of campesinos at work and on parade are as arresting as her twin lilies seen plain.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution by Letizia Argenteri on 13 pages
- The Female Body: Perspectives of Latin American Artists (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Raysa E. Amador Gomez-Quintero on page 55, and Back Matter
- Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti by Patricia Albers in Back Matter
- The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 by Wendy Waters in Back Matter