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Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint my Reality'

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint my Reality'
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Christina Burrus
SeriesNew Horizons
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 177,Width 125
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780500301234
ClassificationsDewey:759.972
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 7 April 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book traces the extraordinary life of an artist whose unforgettable imagery combined cruelty and wit, honesty and insolence, pain and empowerment. Admired by the Surrealists and photographed by the greatest, Frida was most renowned for her self-portraits and unusual still lives. She learned about suffering at an early age. She contracted polio when she was six and was seriously maimed in a bus accident at the age of eighteen, which led to injuries that affected her for the rest of her life. She had a legendarily turbulent marriage to the great mural painter Diego Rivera, with whom she formed a strong attachment to indigenous Mexican folk art and a deep commitment to Communism.

Author Biography

Christina Burrus is a curator and widely published author on art.Among her previous books is The Art Collectors of Russia.

Reviews

'The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' - Andre Breton