Frida Kahlo
Author
Publisher
Libros del Zorro Rojo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Frida Kahlo escribió un diario durante los diez últimos años de su vida (1944-1954). En él recoge sueños, pensamientos, recuerdos e ideas, además de numerosos dibujos y bocetos, que luego plasmó en sus cuadros. Este documento sorprendente e íntimo, que estuvo custodiado bajo llave durante aproximadamente cuarenta años, contiene múltiples señas de la compleja personalidad de esta destacada artista mexicana. Las dos Fridas es un álbum ilustrado,...
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Go inside the magical world of Frida Kahlo as she recalls an early childhood memory of her imaginary friend. Without trying to imitate Frida's unmistakable style, Gianluca Fol captures this fragment from her diary through stunning illustrations that provide a colorful backdrop for Frida's powerful voice. In these words, children will be given a window into the mind of this great artist and the great joy and happiness her imaginary friend brought...
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in the late 1970's Frida Kahlo achieved cult heroine status less for her richly surrealist self-portraits than by the popularization of the events of her tumultuous life. Her images were splashed across billboards magazine ads, and postcards; fashion designers copied the so-called "Frida" look in hairstyles and dress; and "Fridamania" even extended to T-shirts, jewelry, and nail polish. Margaret A. Lindauer argues that this mass market assimilation...
Publisher
Museo Frida Kahlo/Museo Casa Azul
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This compendium presents the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts and emotions generated around two fundamental, iconic figures of modern Mexico: painter Frida Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera. More than 300 images from the archives of the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico City offer readers a glimpse of Kahlo's distinctive wardrobe and the impressive collections of popular and pre-Hispanic art she assembled with Rivera, her connection...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Few painters have been as celebrated and adopted into popular culture as Frida Kahlo--often to the detriment of her amazing achievements as a painter. In this striking volume, one of the world's foremost scholars on Kahlo's art looks past the hype to focus on the artist's technique and motifs. Reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, along with selected details, are accompanied by illuminating observations about the role of physical and mental suffering...
Publisher
The New York Botanical Garden
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Frida Kahlo created a natural paradise in her home at Casa Azul in Mexico City. The plants cultivated there were vital components of some of her most original work and an important part of her fascination with indigenous Mexican history and culture. From early paintings dating from the 1920s to her last known work, Kahlo's use of botanical imagery reflects not only a love of the natural world, but also an evolving iconography. By focusing attention...
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