The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810959542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The text entries in brightly coloured inks make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the illustrated journal she kept during her last 10 years. This passionate and at times surprising record contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams; many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, along with 70 mesmerising watercolour illustrations. Her writing reveals the artist's political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than thirty-five operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of eighteen.
This is a wonderful coffee table book This is a wonderful coffee table book. It isn't as biographical as I wanted. It is photocopies of every page followed by smaller copies of each page (2 or 3 on a page) with English translations and commentary on the art or writings.. Amazing. I purchased for my coworker and wanted to Amazon Customer Amazing. I purchased for my coworker and wanted to keep for myself. She could not stop thanking me for getting it for her. Great book if you like Frida Kahlo. Only issue is that it is all in Spanish so it will be hard if you to understand if you cannot read Spanish. Otherwise great buy.. Susan S. said Five Stars. My friend loved this book. It's beautiful.
Frida Kahlo, one of the most dynamic figures of 20th-century art, has very nearly become a saint, so legendary is her tumultuous and tragic life. . It is accompanied by an English translation with explanatory commentaries. The most fascinating part of the book is the facsimile diary, in its exact size, reproduced here for the first time, with color illustrations. We find the genesis of some of her most famous paintings, her love letters, and sketches of people she knew such as her husband, the Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera, and numerous studies for self-portraits. While there is no dearth of books about Kahlo and her work, none are as po