Here is the definitive portrayal of the brilliant, iconoclastic woman who throughout her life (1896–1942) oscillated between her passion for her art and her fervor for radical politics. Tracing Modotti from her early years in Italy to 1920s Hollywood, then to vibrant Mexico City and on to Berlin and Moscow, and eventually to war-torn Spain, Hooks magnificently portrays Modotti's tempestuous life—her romantic, artistic, and political liaisons with Edward Weston, Diego Rivera, and Pablo Neruda. Incorporating interviews with Modotti's contemporaries and new archival material, Tina Modotti dramatically revives a fascinating life and secures Modotti's rightful place alongside Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe as one of the most accomplished women artists of our era.

Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer

Arts & Photography

Hooks, Margaret

Individual Artists

Da Capo Press

The 55 Series This is one of the most unique monograph series in the history of photography! The 55 Series represents the work of many of photography s most important figures. Each book contains 55 of the photographer s key works, presented chronologically and through them tells the photographer s own story. These books are small, but surprisingly rich in content and reproduction quality. They are a most economical way to bring the world of photography into your home. Each book is 128 pp. 6 1/4 x 5 3/4 , softbound.

Tina Modotti (Phaidon 55's)

Phaidon Press

Tina Modotti (Spanish Edition)

This selection of portraits of Frida Kahlo brings together the work of some of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth century. The images span Frida Kahlo's life beginning with the photograph of the self-possessed chubby four-year-old with her fist full of wilting roses and ending with the image of an emaciated, wasted figure on her deathbed forty-two years later. They follow the artist's trajectory from precocious child to famous artist; bringing into focus the painter, the paintings, the patient, the wife, the daughter, the lover and the friend. They permit us to peer into her bedroom, sit at her table, visit her hospital room, wander into her garden, view her collections and play with her pets. Some of these photographs conceal as much as they reveal about the woman who described herself as 'la gran ocultadora', the great concealer. While most of the images provide us with a unique opportunity to glimpse the woman behind the facade, others perhaps not so revealing, are equally fascinating in allowing us to view one of the most intriguing of the artist's creations; the construction of a self-image as carefully crafted and conceived as any of the painter's other works of art.

Frida Kahlo : Portraits of an Icon

Photography & Video

Bloomsbury Publishing

Icons of surrealism such as the Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips sofa would not exist if it weren't for Edward James. Born into fabulous wealth his father was a scion of the Phelps-Dodge dynasty, his mother a beautiful socialite said to be the daughter of King Edward VII James amassed one of the finest collections of surrealist art and was the major benefactor of Salvador Dal , Leonora Carrington, and Rene Magritte. He lavished his fortune on an ostentatious lifestyle and landmark artistic ventures such as Dal 's Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair and a series of spectacular Balanchine ballets for his wife, the exotic Viennese dancer Tilly Losch. 
Turning his back on the strictures of England, a faltering career as a poet, and his failed marriage, James followed the movable feast around Europe and then headed for America and 1940s Los Angeles, where he was a member of the colony of artists and writers that included Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi, and Christopher Isherwood. But it was ultimately in Mexico that he felt at home and became an artist in his own right, creating the remarkable Las Pozas, in the remote town of Xilitla, an area abounding in waterfalls and wild orchids. Working with local Otomi Indians, he sculpted the jungle, illuminated the forest, and built parapets in the sky. Award-winning biographer Margaret Hooks tells the bizarre, often tragic tale of his life and the creation of his surreal masterpiece, captured exquisitely in photographs by Sally Mann, Michael Schuyt, Lourdes Almeida, and others.

Surreal Eden: Edward James and Las Pozas

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Princeton Architectural Press

Guatemalan Women Speak

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Epica Task Force

Tina Modotti

Farbiarnia

Frida Kahlo: La Gran Ocultadora (Artes Visuales) (Spanish Edition)

TURNER PUBLICACIONES S.L.

Edward James y Las Pozas esta ampliamente ilustrado con imagenes hechos por muchos fotografos destacados que fotografiaron Las Pozas y Edward James y su circulo. Incluye una serie de fotografias previamente ineditas de Sally Mann, asi como imagenes hechos por Graciela Iturbide, Lourdes Almeida, Chris Rauschenberg, Michael Schuyt y otros. Las Pozas es un espectacular canto al surrealismo, con sus estructuras de cemento de colores que brotan de la vegetacion misma, fue creado por el poeta, mecenas y arquitecto de suenos, el excentrico Edward James, una de las personas menos conocidas pero mas fascinantes de nuestro tiempo. En 1945, Edward James descubrio en una zona de cascadas, pajaros, mariposas y orquideas salvajes, un remoto pueblo fundado en tiempos prehispanicos, Xilitla, donde decidio construir un Jardin del Eden surrealista. Con la ayuda de artesanos locales de origen otomi y huasteco, James esculpio la selva, ilumino el bosque y construyo parapetos hacia el cielo. Nacido en el lujo de la alta aristocracia inglesa - su padre fue figura principal de la dinastia industrial norteamericana de los Phelps-Dodge, y su madre una bella aristocrata, James heredo dos enormes fortunas y las gasto en un estilo de vida ostentoso y en aventuras artisticas. Formo una importante coleccion de arte surrealista, pues fue mecenas de Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte y Leonora Carrington, entre otros. Financio y colaboro con el Dream of Venus de Dali y fue el inspirador del Lobster Telephone, asi como de la famosa pintura de Magritte La reproduction interdite (La reproduccion prohibida). Tambien financio los muy famosos ballets conocido como Les Ballets Russes. Al abandonar Inglaterra a fines de la decada de los treinta, se mudo a una colonia de artistas en Taos, Nuevo Mexico, y despues a Hollywood y Los Ãngeles, donde trabo amistad con varios personajes, entre ellos Man Ray, Ruth Ford, Isamu Noguchi, Aldous Huxley e Igor Stravinsky. Pero fue el Mexico surrealista de Breton el que lo cautivo, y Xilitla se convirtio en su verdadero hogar. A pesar de viajar durante decadas entre Mexico, Europa y Estados Unidos, Edward James siempre volvera a su proyecto de Las Pozas.

Edward James y Las Pozas: Un sueño surrealista en la selva mexicana (Arte y Fotografía) (Spanish Edition)

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