At the Crossroads: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts. By Catha Paquette. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 130 photos. Pp. 342. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Born in Beni Soueif, Egypt, Hamed Owais is one of the leading painters of Egyptian social realism. He was a partisan of the ideals of the Gamal Abdel Nasser era and was inspired by Mexican muralists, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. His work portrays the daily life of the Egyptian working class through a clear and direct style, reflecting the strength of his social convictions. Having graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1944, he pursued his studies at the Institute of Art Education in Cairo where he received his diploma in 1946. A year later, he founded, together with other artists of his generation, the Egyptian "Group of Modern Art". Following a teaching career at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria, he received a scholarship in 1967 to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. On his return to Egypt, he served as the head of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria (1977–1979).

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Rivera, Diego (1886–1957)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem1759-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

June I. K. Black

Keyword(s):

Mexico City ◽

Fine Arts ◽

Preparatory School ◽

Liberal Politics ◽

Diego Rivera ◽

Avant Garde ◽

National School ◽

The Family ◽

San Carlos

Diego Rivera was an artist born in 1886 in the Mexican city of Guanajuato. The family relocated to Mexico City in 1892 as a consequence of the liberal politics of Rivera’s father. In the capital, Rivera was educated at the National Preparatory School and the National School of Fine Arts (formerly known as the Academy of San Carlos), where he studied under Félix Parra, Santiago Rebull, and José María Velasco. In 1904, he met Dr. Atl, who was likely the first to encourage Rivera to explore Modernism. By utilizing the multifaceted, compressed, and interlocking planes characteristic of Cubism together with the naturalistic forms more common to academic art, his works represent a peculiar blend of the academic and the avant garde.

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When life becomes art: A librarian’s experience acting the part

College & Research Libraries News ◽

10.5860/crln.78.6.319 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 78 (6) ◽

pp. 319

Author(s):

Laura Schwartz

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Student ◽

Art History ◽

Performing Arts ◽

Fine Arts ◽

University Of Texas ◽

History Department ◽

The University ◽

Arts Programming

In fall 2014, I was approached by a theater/dance undergraduate student who wanted to put on a play in the Fine Arts Library (FAL) at the University of Texas (UT)-Austin. Because we had done a variety of performing arts programming in our magnificent space, I was inclined to say yes. She had written and was directing a play that took place in a library. Being the liaison to the Art and Art History Department, I thought it prudent to bring the theater/dance librarian into the discussion.

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