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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Customers find this biography of Frida Kahlo thoroughly captivating and well-researched, with one customer noting how it illuminates both her life and art. The book receives positive feedback for its fascinating story and art quality, with one review highlighting its beautiful Mexican setting. Customers appreciate the inspirational content, with one mentioning how it portrays her life with spirit.

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"Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human." — San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle.Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend. Read more

Product Information

ASINB0B6YGSR5S
PublisherHarper Perennial
AccessibilityLearn more
Publication dateOctober 4, 2022
LanguageEnglish
File size194.7 MB
Screen ReaderSupported
Enhanced typesettingEnabled
X-RayEnabled
Word WiseEnabled
Print length522 pages
ISBN-13978-0063307414
Page FlipEnabled
Best Sellers Rank#16,213 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #3 in Women Artists #3 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Kindle Store) #7 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Books)
Customer Reviews4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,179 ratings

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