Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's arresting pictures were expressions of trauma, transforming afflictions into revolutionary art. Her self-portraiture rejected victimhood and intertwined experiences into a hybrid real-surreal language. Her works explored Communist political ideals, expressing her inner and outer feelings. This book introduces her work, highlighting her determination as an artist, feminist icon, and pioneer of Latin American culture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 27 March 2021
Publisher: Taschen GmbH

Frida Kahlo's arresting pictures were often expressions of trauma. At the age of 18, she suffered a near-fatal road accident, poor health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage, and childlessness. She transformed these afflictions into revolutionary art. In her self-portraiture, Kahlo gazes out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living. Her works also explore the Communist political ideals she shared with her husband, Diego Rivera. Kahlo described her paintings as "the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself." This book introduces the rich body of Kahlo's work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.

Weight: 618g
Dimension: 265 x 215 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783836500852