Tina Modotti
n.d.
Book cover for Angel de la Calle, ? Tina Modotti: From Art to Revolution (KPSM) [Greek edition]

Book cover
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Creator and cartoonist Angel de la Calle discovers and presents to us a legendary figure of art and struggle, a bohemian figure, Tina Mondotti. Photographer, silent film actress, model, communist movement official, Italian woman who fought in Mexico in the 20s, in Spain in the 1936s, in Moscow and in many more battles. Tina was everywhere in the 1920s and 1930s. She lived all these stories that became History. He participated in the cultural and political vanguard. With the help of photography, he narrated the cruelty and tenderness. A person surrounded by shadows and mysteries, endowed with a strong love aura, fighting and finally a victim, is a person worth getting to know.
 
Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was Italian, the child of immigrants to the USA, where she became a Hollywood actress in the 1920s. Lover and student of the great photographer Edward Weston, she lived in post-revolutionary Mexico, where she became a model for Diego Rivera, who immortalized her in his frescoes, and met amicably with Frida Kahlo. But also a friend of Alexandra Kolodai, Mayakovsky, Santino and Sergei Eisenstein! She lived briefly in Moscow, and as an active member of the Communist International fought in the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Her strange death in 1942 marked Pablo Neruda, who wrote the epitaph on her grave… Let's live her! (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)
 
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