Portrait of a Decade: David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1930-1940, 1997, 1st English Edition, VG HC w/DJ

Debroise, Olivier, et al. Mexico City: Museo Nacional de Arte, 1997 

English, First English Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 12 1/2" x 9 1/2", 238 pp. 

ISBN: 9682995744

First English Edition, hardcover in red paper with blind stamped lettering to front panel and spine. Slight cocking to spine, faint white soiling to front panel, light wear and bumping to bottom edge, otherwise clean and tightly bound. Good+ pictorial dust jacket, sunning to spine, 1" closed tear to front panel and 1/2" closed tear to tail, some shelf wear, and crease to interior front flap, now in Mylar. 238 pp. Includes black-and-white and full-color reproductions of Siqueiros' work, and related images. Explores and analyzes a decade of work by the Mexican social realist painter, David Alfaro Siqueiros, with essays discussing his artistic and ideological strategies, as well as his approach to muralism. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition of the same name, starting at the Museo Nacional de Arte from November 28, 1996, to February 16, 1997.