Frida Kahlo
by Hayden Herrera, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Elizabeth Carpenter, Frida Kahlo
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Author: Elizabeth Carpenter, Frida Kahlo, Hayden Herrera, Victor Zamudio-TaylorEditor: Elizabeth Carpenter
Foreword: Kathy Halbreich
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 0935640886
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Walker Art Center
Book Reviews of Frida Kahlo
Book Review: A fascinating depiction
Summary: 4 Stars
When I was a college student 30 years ago I was fortunate enough to live in Coyoacan and visit Frida Kahlo's house a number of times. Coyoacan is quaint and charming and colorful. To walk the ancient streets is to enter a dream.
Seeing Frida Kahlo's work for the first time was startling. The honesty took me aback. Women were conditioned to keep quiet and not emote at the time and yet she literally bared all.
She fascinated me and I was drawn to her art, her homes and her life with Diego Rivera.
Hayden Herrera's book is a well researched and vivid depiction of a life fraught with challenge, triumph, disappointment, courage and eventual surrender. Her love for Diego was epic.
Another book about Diego Rivera that depicts the struggle of his first wife Angeline Beloff, also a great artist, is called "House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera". In it one sees his struggle to define himself and realize the importance of Mexico and its culture to him. Living in exile made him crave the color, romance and passion of Mexico. Though he married Lupe Marin on his return; Frida was the great passionate love affair of his life. Yes, he had many but she was his match in many ways.
Summary of Frida Kahlo
Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. During her lifetime, she was best known as the flamboyant wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship: Rivera declared himself to be "unfit for fidelity." As if to assuage her pain, Kahlo recorded the vicissitudes of her marriage in paint. She also recorded the misery of her deteriorating health--the orthopedic corsets that she was forced to wear, the numerous spinal surgeries, the miscarriages and therapeutic abortions. The artist's sometimes harrowing imagery is mitigated by an intentional primitivism and small scale, as well as by her sardonic humor and extraordinary imagination. In celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of Kahlo's birth, this major new monograph is published on the occasion of the 2007-08 traveling exhibition. It features the artist's most renowned work--the hauntingly seductive and often brutal self-portraits--as well as a selection of key portraits and still lifes; more than 100 color plates, from Kahlo's earliest works, made in 1926, to her last, in 1954; critical essays by Elizabeth Carpenter, Hayden Herrera and Victor Zamudio-Taylor; and a selection of photographs of Kahlo and Rivera by preeminent photographers of the period, including Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, Tina Modotti and Nickolas Muray. The catalogue also contains snapshots from the artist's own photo albums of Kahlo with family and friends such as Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky--some of which have never been published, and several of which Kahlo inscribed with dedications, effaced with self-deprecating marks or kissed with a lipstick trace--plus an extensive illustrated timeline, selected bibliography, exhibition history and index.Kahlo, Frida Books
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