General & Miscellaneous Art, Latinos & Latin Americans, Art of the Americas

Frida Kahlo

Name: Frida Kahlo
Author: Elizabeth Carpenter
ISBN: 9780935640885

by Elizabeth Carpenter (Editor), Hayden Herrera, Victor Zamudio-Taylor

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Overview

Este libro reune pinturas, fotografias y dibujos pocos veces publicados juntos, obras de colecciones particulares, tanto de Europa como de Estados Unidos, México y Sudamerica de dificil acceso, son reproducidos aquí con toda la riqueza de sus detalles. El volumen esta acompañada por textos que hablan de la vida y la obra de esta notable artista, una de la mas importantes pinturas mexicanos del siglo XX.

English Translation: This fabulous book gathers paintings, photographs and drawings, rarely published togheter; wooks of hard to reach privade collections, from Europe and the United States, Mexico and Sohut America, and are reproduced here with all the richness of detail. This volume includes also texts that talk about the life and work of this remarkable artis, one of the most omportant mexican painters of the twentieh century

At last--vivid, full-color postcards featuring Frida Kahlo's most popular works in a high-quality, inexpensive collection. This compilation of Kahlo's most famous and haunting works was selected from her passionate self-portraits, exotic still-lifes, and semi-surreal scenes. 22 full-color postcards.

About the Author, Elizabeth Carpenter

Frida Kahlo lived fewer than 50 years, but hers was an intensely examined life, and one that enthusiasts all over the world are still poring over. As a child in the suburbs of Mexico City, Kahlo, born in 1907, survived polio. As a teenager already enrolled in premedical studies, her body was brought forcefully to her attention again by a bus accident whose physical repercussions would shape the rest of her days, crucially inform her artwork and eventually kill her. Kahlo was already a painter when she married the political muralist Diego Rivera at 22, a volatile pairing that survived much unrest and one divorce and remarriage. She had her first solo exhibition in 1938, at New Yorkis Julien Levy Gallery, and saw some growth in her career before her death in 1954, but nothing like the steady, exponential increase of interest and respect that has continued since. Exhibits, books and reproductions abound, and 2002 saw the release of a high-profile feature film about her life starring Salma Hayek.

Elizabeth Carpenter is a Guest Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and a Curatorial Assistant at the Walker Art Center.