Gannit Ankori

Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation

Imaging Her Selves

Dabney Hailey

Dor Guez: 100 Steps to the Mediterranean is the catalogue for an exhibition of videos and photographs at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, on view from September 20 through December 9, 2012. Guez, an artist whose heritage is both Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian, takes as his overt subject the Christian Arab minority in Israel, a community marginalized by the prevailing metanarratives of both Israelis and Arabs. Guez’s art installations address the gaps in those narratives, while exploring the role of contemporary art in raising questions about history, nationality, ethnicity, and personal identity.

100 Steps to the Mediterranean

Dor Guez

Analysing Frida Kahlo's paintings, diary, personal letters, photographs and medical records, and with first-hand interviews with relatives and friends, this book assesses the mythic status and critical impact of an artist who was emphatically of her time, yet also ahead of her time.

Frida Kahlo

Tate Modern (Gallery)

Christina Burrus

Raquel Tibol

Oriana Baddeley

Presents a catalog of an exhibition of the artist's major and lesser known works.

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the myths, contradictions, and ambiguities that riddle her dramatic story. Gannit Ankori examines Kahlo’s early childhood, medical problems, volatile marriage, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and, most important, her unparalleled and innovative art. Based on detailed analyses of the artist’s paintings, diary, letters, photographs, medical records, and interviews, the book also assesses Kahlo’s critical impact on contemporary art and culture. Kahlo was of her time, deeply immersed in the issues that dominated the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, as this book reveals, she was also ahead of her time. Her paintings challenged social norms and broke taboos, addressing themes such as the female body, gender, cross-dressing, hybridity, identity, and trauma in ways that continue to inspire contemporary artists across the globe. Frida Kahlo is a succinct and powerful account of the life, art and legacy of this iconic artist.

Circe Henestrosa

This book marks the triumphant return of Frida Kahlo to San Francisco, the city where her artistic life began to unfold. Kahlo's sojourns to the United States were brief, but formative. It was in the California city--the first she visited in the US--that she ventured into a new world beyond the scope of Coyoacán, Mexico City, and Cuernavaca. Kahlo first visited San Francisco in 1930 with her husband Diego Rivera and stayed for a year while he completed murals for the City Club of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute. It was love at first sight. Kahlo appreciated the beauty of the city, relished its ethnic diversity, and was mesmerized by neighborhoods like Chinatown. She met fascinating people, many of whom became lifelong friends. It was also in San Francisco that Kahlo began to fashion her indigenous (and now iconic) Mexican identity, deliberately distinguishing herself from the local women, whom she called "scarecrows" and "dull." Kahlo refined her sartorial flair, enhanced her political and social worldview, and began to paint seriously. Today she is recognized as a cultural icon, and one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the twentieth century. Presented alongside a major exhibition at the de Young museum in San Francisco, this catalogue includes essays exploring Kahlo's role as an artist and her time in San Francisco, as well as a selection of artworks by the artist and photographs of her. Frida Kahlo and San Francisco provides a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which politics, gender, trauma, and national identity influenced Kahlo's diverse modes of creativity. Exhibition Schedule De Young San Francisco, CA March 21-July 26, 2020

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