Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed.

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The Paintings of Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo transcended art history like no other female artist before her. She was a key figure in Mexican revolutionary modern art and a pioneer of the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism.

Among the women artists Among those who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in Over Fifty Extraordinary Self-Portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkácsi, they made Frida Kahlo an icon of 20th-century art.

After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter. Her marriage to Diego Rivera In 1929, she found herself at the forefront of the artistic scene not only in the Mexico's cultural Renaissance, but also in the United States. Her work earned praise from the poet André Breton, who included the Mexican painter among the ranks of international Surrealism and exhibited her work in Paris in 1939, to the admiration of Picasso, Kandinsky, and Duchamp.

We gain insight into the intimacy of Frida’s affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from her personal diary, and an an extensive, illustrated biographyfeaturing photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida’s home and the center of her universe.

This book allows readers to admire Frida Kahlo’his paintings like never before, including unprecedented close-up shots and famous photographs. It features pieces from private collections and reproduces works that were were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80 years.