Frida Kahlo : making her self up / edited by Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilcox, Claire, editor.

Henestrosa, Circe, editor.

Victoria and Albert Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kahlo, Frida--Exhibitions.

Kahlo, Frida.

Kahlo, Frida--Criticism and interpretation.

Painters--Mexico--Biography.

Painters.

Criticism and interpretation.

Mexico.

Genre:

Biographies.

Exhibition catalogues.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Frida Kahlo, making herself up

Place of Publication:

London : V&A Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up gives readers a unique window into Kahlo's life. It will focus on the personal, combining her prosthetics, jewelry, and clothes with self-portraits, diary entries, and letters to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions, setting this in the context of her political and social beliefs.

Contents:

I. Family and childhood

Querzalcoatl's Grin: the changing face of art and culture in Frida Kahlo's Mexico / Adrian Locke

II. Adolescence and adulthood

Appearances can be deceiving-Frida Kahlo's construction of identity: disability, ethnicity and dress / Circe Henestrosa

Frida Kahlo's jewellery / Clare Phillips

III. Jewellery

Frida Kahlo's wardrobe / Chloë Sayer

Frida Kahlo: making her self up / Claire Wilcox

IV. Cosmetics

Frida Kahlo: posing, composing, exposing / Gannit Ankori

V. Orthopaedic devices

The Resplandor: cultural and spiritual significance in two self-portraits / Kirstin Kennedy

Frida redressed / Oriana Baddeley

VI. Medicines.

Notes:

"First published by V&A Publishing to accompany the exhibition Frida Kahlo: making her self up on view from 16 June until 4 November 2018 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781851779604

1851779604

OCLC:

1042157557