Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060166991 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 255 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars LD Frida is one of my favorite artists! I love this book!. Five Stars Amazon Customer I enjoy reading this book.. "great book" according to Kate. great fro a Kahlo fan
. It improves upon Zamora by providing perhaps the most direct analysis of Kahlo's life and art within one volume to date. From Library Journal Frida Kahlo's extraordinary life and revolutionary art continue to bear fruit with two superb new books, coming quickly on the heels of Martha Zamora's acclaimed Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish ( LJ 1/91). Herrera's ( Frida , LJ 1/83) beautifully produced book is laden with large color plates and dozens of photos of Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and their cronies. Lowe's biography, the first in a promising new series on women artists, is a succinct, insightful profile of the Mexican painter, combining a biographical chapte
She is the author of numerous articles and reviews for such publications as Art in America, Art Forum, Connoisseur, and the New York Times, among others. She has lectured widely, curated several exhibitions of art, taught Latin American art at New York University, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her
In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo s life and their meaning for her work. In small, stunningly rendered self portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. ". Among the famous and little known works included