Frida

Download or read book Frida in America written by Celia Stahr and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today "[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's Weekly Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.

Download or read book Frida's Bed written by Slavenka Drakulić and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo's life explores the inner life of one of the world's most influential female artists.

Download or read book Frida written by Barbara Louise Mujica and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told by Frida Kahlo's sister Cristina, this is the story of the great artist and her marriage to another great artist, the muralist Diego Rivera.

Download or read book Frida Kahlo written by Frida Kahlo and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passionate life and work of the Mexican artist, comprehensively presented for the first time in paintings and photographs. Private photographs form among the possessions of her family and close friends afford the reader of this book some rare and unusual insights into Frida Kahlo's life and times. --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Frida Kahlo written by Margaret Hooks and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Margaret Hooks.

Download or read book Frida Kahlo written by Salomón Grimberg and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grimberg, a psychiatrist and art historian, has authored and edited several books and exhibition catalogs on the poignant life and works of Frida Kahlo. In these two recent books, Grimberg focuses both on Kahlo's creative process and on how her works, self-portraits and still lifes, complement each other and serve as windows to consider the artist and her other paintings. Song of Herself centers on a series of interviews between Kahlo and Olga Campos, a psychologist and Kahlo's friend; Kahlo's words have been grouped together to present her revealing musings on a variety of subjects, such as children, sexuality, politics, and her own body.

Download or read book Frida's Frida written by Rosa Casanova and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxurious book published by Cultural Promotion Banamex, the book of more than 320 pages contains numerable illustrations on the artist, who this year has been remembered everywhere in the world with regard to the centenary of her birth. Texts by Rosa Casanova, Dina Comisarenco Mirkin, Teresa del Conde, Maria Teresa Frank, Estela Maria González Cicero and Maria Teresa Pomar. The volume with gilded pages is bound in cloth and is presented in a box with a reproduction of the famous embroidered dress in the painting: "The Two Fridas". "Frida de Frida" opens with an illustration of the Self-portrait, painted in 1948 and includes introductory texts of Manuel Medina Mora, Roberto Hernandez Ramirez and Alfredo Harp Helú, heads of the sponsoring company of the volume. The initial text is "Frida Kahlo and the phenomenon fridomaniaco", of Teresa del Conde, it offers an up-to-date profile of the painter. Letters and personal photographs and drawings unfold throughout her text. Rosa Casanova focuses to the influence that the photography had in the artist through text "Impressions of icono" and the influence that Guillermo Kahlo, Frida's father (considered one of the most outstanding photographers of first half of Mexican century XX), had on her work. Maria Teresa Frank in "Frida Kahlo: self-portrait in her Ink", reflects on different episodes from the painter and Dina Comisarenco in "Luna. Sol. Yo?" analyzes Frida as an artist of her time, the Frida de Diego and her role in the as related to Mexican nationality. Maria Teresa Pomar analyzes in "Frida y su amor a México" the nationalism of the painter, whereas Maria González Cicero focuses on "The Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera files" and the multiple surprises that are developing in art history on the famous pair of Mexican artists.