|
| Frida Kahlo: Portraits 0f An Icon | 
| Authors: Margaret Hooks, Florence Arquin, Lucienne Bloch, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, Gisele Freund, Juan Guzm N, Fritz Henze, Antonio Kahlo, Guillermo Kahlo, Bernice Kolko, Leo Matiz, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray, Emmy Lou Packard, Victor Reyes
Creators: Hector Garcia, Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Publisher: Turner
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
Buy New: $42.96
You Save: $22.04 (34%)
New (11) from $42.96
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 544129
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 9.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 8475065643
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9788475065649
ASIN: 8475065643
Publication Date: February 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Book! Delivered direct from our US warehouse in 3-6 days (Expedited) or 10-14 days (Standard). Expedited shipping recommended for speedy delivery. Over 1 million satisfied customers.
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
From 1926 until her death in 1954, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life. One of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descent, in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacn, Kahlo did not originally plan to become an artist. During her convalescence from a bus accident in her late teens, Kahlo began to paint with oils. Her pictures, mostly self-portraits and still-lifes, were deliberately naive, filled with the bright colors and flattened forms of the Mexican folk art she loved. At 21, Kahlo fell in love with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera; their stormy, passionate relationship survived infidelities, the pressures of Rivera's career, a divorce and remarriage, and Kahlo's poor health. The couple traveled to the United States and France, where Kahlo met luminaries from the worlds of art and politics. She had her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1938 and enjoyed considerable success during the 40s, but her reputation soared posthumously, beginning in the 80s with the publication of numerous books about her work by feminist art historians and others. In the last two decades an explosion of Kahlo-inspired films, plays, calendars, and jewelry has transformed the artist into a veritable cult figure. Portraits of an Icon is not another book featuring Kahlo's beloved, tortured self-portraits. Rather, it offers another kind of portrait of the artist, a means of seeing her through the eyes of those who surrounded her: modern masters of the camera such as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Martin Munkacsi; leading photojournalists such as Giselle Freund, Bernard Silberstein, and Fritz Henle; and Kahlo's relatives, lovers, and friends, among them Guillermo Kahlo, Nicolas Muray, and Lola Alvarez Bravo. The images span Kahlo's life, beginning with a photograph of a self-possessed chubby four-year-old, her fists full of wilting roses, and ending with the image of an emaciated, wasted figure laying on her deathbed, dressed in pre-Columbian finery. They follow the artist's trajectory from precocious child to famous artist, bringing into focus the painter, the paintings, the patient, the wife, the daughter, the lover, the friend. They permit a look into her bedroom, a seat at her table, a visit to her hospital room, a stroll through her garden, a view into her collections, and some play with her pets. While many of these images provide us with a unique opportunity to glimpse the woman behind the facade, others, though less revealing, are equally fascinating in allowing us to view one of the most intriguing of the artist's creations--the construction of a self-image as carefully crafted and conceived as any of her works of art.
|
| Customer Reviews:
I love Frida! June 21, 2005
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a must have for Kahlo fans out there. She's talented. She's beautiful. She's fierce.
|
|
|
Wildlife, nature and the Environment
Sponsored Links
Learn how to get your own Amazon Book shop | |
