Frida
This is a biography of the Mexican painter who was brought up during the Mexican Revolution, suffered a crippling accident at 18 that left her unable to bear children, married muralist Diego Rivera, had love affairs with Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, and produced rich and haunting paintings.
This is a biography of the Mexican painter who was brought up during the Mexican Revolution, suffered a crippling accident at 18 that left her unable to bear children, married muralist Diego Rivera, had love affairs with Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, and produced rich and haunting paintings.
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ISBN:
9780747540984 (0747540985)
Edition language: English
Most of us know about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and how she suffered. Her suffering is unimaginable. The book begins with the details of her bout with polio and then her accident, when the bus she was riding in, in Mexico City, was hit by a tram. September 17, 1925. Her letters to her boyfrie...
The reproductions are gorgeous. The photographs are great. The essays are a little dry.
The biography of Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and icon, who had a horrible accident in her youth which she suffered from all her life, gives an insight into her independent mind, her expressive art and her turbulent life. She was married to the famous Diego Rivera, who had countless affairs, found a...
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