Hayden Herrera

A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Frida

"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--

The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi

Listening to Stone

"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--

A Memoir

Upper Bohemia

سيرة حياة فريدا كاهلو

فريدا

In small, stunningly rendered self–portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo‘s life and their meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full–color paintings, as well as dozens of black–and–white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and little–known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self–Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life.

Frida Kahlo: The Paintings

Frida Kahlo

Victor Zamudio-Taylor

His Life and Work

Arshile Gorky

Frida. Una biografia di Frida Kahlo

An in-depth biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo details her haunting and original painting style, her turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her association with communism, and her love of Mexican culture and folklore

Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo

RENATO MARQUES

'Frida - uma biografia' procura apresentar a intimidade da vida desta pintora mexicana, além de trazer detalhadas descrições e interpretações de seus quadros.

FRIDA - A BIOGRAFIA

"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 Chronicle Hailed 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.

Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Edited by Elizabeth Carpenter. Text by Hayden Herrera, Elizabeth Carpenter, Victor Zamudio-Taylor.

Franz Schulze

Seymour Rosofsky

I denna magnifika bok går konstvetaren Hayden Herrera på djupet i den fascinerande och sprakande historien om Frida Kahlo, en av världens mest ikoniska konstnärer och människor: Hennes barndom i Mexiko City under den mexikanska revolutionen. Hennes fascination för mexikansk folklore och kultur. Samröret med kommunisterna. Det stormiga äktenskap med konstnären Diego Rivera. Hennes många kärleksaffärer och den tragiska olycka som skadade henne för livet och gjorde så att hon aldrig kunde få barn. Frida Kahlo är rikt illustrerad med foton och målningar - en lyxigt formgiven, fängslande biografi, oumbärlig för alla som är intresserade av Frida Kahlo. HAYDEN HERRERA är en amerikansk konsthistoriker och författare. Hon har skrivit biografier om Henri Matisse och Mary Frank och hennes texter har publicerats i bland annat New York Times och Art in America. 1996 mottog hon det prestigefyllda Guggenheim Fellowship-priset. »En förtrollande berättelse om radikal konst, romantisk politik, bisarra kärlekar och fysiskt lidande.« Time Magazine »Hayden Herrera lyckas på ett imponerande sätt skära sig igenom myterna och ge oss en bild av denna sagolika kvinna.« The Independent »Frida Kahlo kommer att inta platsen som den första omfattande biografin över denna den mest fysiska av konstnärer.« The Observer

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