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Frida Kahlo : an illustrated life / María Hesse ; translation by Achy Obejas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hesse, María, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kahlo, Frida.
- Women painters--Mexico--Biography.
- Women painters.
- Painters--Mexico--Biography.
- Painters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning.She is renowned for both her paintings and her personal story, which were equally filled with pain and anguish, celebration and life.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Frida Kahlo
- She plays alone
- Adolescence and first accident
- Pain and paintbrushes
- The elephant and the dove
- Gringolandia
- My second accident
- Leon Trotsky
- Surrealism
- Remember me
- The wounded deer
- The dream
- Interpretation of her work: a chronology
- Reinterpreting her work.
- Notes:
- Originally published in Spanish as "Frida Kahlo: una biografía" by Penguin Random House Grupe Editorial in 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4773-1729-5
- OCLC:
- 1037296148
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