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Frida: A Biography of Frida
Kahlo
by Hayden Herrera
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle.
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
by Frida Kahlo, Sarah M. Lowe, Carlos Fuentes (Introduction)
"The reproduction of Frida
Kahlo's diary . . . is a very special publishing event. . . . This replica
is a beautiful fabrication, authentic in its details and faithful to the
original. . . . Her diary is a gorgeous phoenix: it adds to the luster
of her posthumous life as an artist." —Art in America
The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the
illustrated journal she kept during her last 10 years. This passionate
and at times surprising record contains the artist's thoughts, poems,
and dreams—many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband,
artist Diego Rivera—along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations.
"In his characteristically brilliant and dramatic introductory essay,
Carlos Fuentes greatly extends our perception of Kahlo's persona and art.
This is a remarkable and precious book." —Booklist
Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
by Hayden Herrera
In small, stunningly rendered
self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open,
hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney,
and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary
in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls
of an exhibition be covered with asbestos.
In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous
paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each
with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their
meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty
full-color paintings, as well as dozens of black-and-white pictures and
line illustrations. Among the famous and little-known works included in
Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana,
Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital,
My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of
Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of
her life
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon
