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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera

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Awesome book. I was familiar with Frida Kahlo's work, but never very interested in it (despite the inclusion of monkeys in her artwork and my love of simians) and then I just randomly picked up this book at the library and decided to read it. Getting a glimpse at the inspiration behind her art has really allowed me a better appreciation. She was a pretty amazing woman and I felt rather affected by this book, by which I mean I moped around morosely for about a week because I couldn't get The Broken Column out of my head. But then I watched Pathfinder and felt better (awful movie, very attractive lead).

But yes, very enlightening and utterly absorbing read. Amazing woman. ( )
  h_d | Mar 31, 2013 |
VG copy. trade paperback
  Hawken04 | Nov 17, 2012 |
I know so little about art. Still less about Mexico. Vitually nothing about communism in Mexico. This book alleviated each of these deficiencies to some degree.

Kahlo lived a physically painful life; helped very little, it seems by mid-twentieth century medicine. Either in spite of the physical nightmare she endured or because of it, we are left with a record of true genius, however macabre it at times it appears.

Herrera was able to keep me, a self confessed art neophyte, focused for two months as I read 10 pages or so about 5 nights a week. ( )
  kaulsu | Nov 15, 2011 |
een mooi tijdsbeeld en levensbeschrijving van het zuidamerikaanse echtpaar Frida Kahlo en Diegi Riveira, echt prachtig!
  annasmart | Jan 11, 2011 |
I liked this book a lot, ms. herrera brought frida, diego and the art world alive wonderful life wonderful book ( )
  michaelbartley | Dec 4, 2010 |
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Die Lebensgeschichte der Frida Kahlo beginnt und endet im selben Haus.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060085894, Paperback)

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.

(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:22:43 -0500)

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This 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.… (more)

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