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Rivera in America [videorecording] / produced and directed by Rick Tejada-Flores ; an Alturas Films production in association with American masters

Published
[United States?] : Alturas Films, [1999]
Copyright Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators
Tejada-Flores, Rick, Valdez, Luis, and Alturas Films

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Summary
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.
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Related Titles
American masters (Television program)
Note
Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program American masters in 1988.
Participant/Performer Note
Narrator, Luis Valdez.
Technical Details
DVD.
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