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Magician's Hat : Poems on the Life of David Alfaro Siqueiros
Overview
These poems engage the life of the famed Mexican muralist Jose "David" Alfaro Siqueiros, whose vision of a free, generous, and artistically liberated Mexico, completely responsive to both its people and its history, unified and informed his inner and outer worlds. It is a book about the muralist's sensibility, about the way in which his experimental art and his human concerns synthesized in his work to become his vision. Less a biography than an interpretation of one artist's sensibility in love, war, and painting, it is an interdependent sequence that argues out its dialectic in a connected and accretive way. The result is a magical and riveting work of historiography and the lyric imagination.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780899241333
- ISBN-10: 0899241336
- Publisher: Lynx House Press
- Publish Date: March 2013
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 84
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