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Frida: Bringing Frida Kahlo's
Life and Art to Film (Newmarket Pictorial Movebooks)
by Julie Taymor
A magnificent visual book in
full color with over 150 photos and notes about the making of the major
feature film by the award-winning director (The Lion King, Titus) about
one of the most famous artists and feminists in the twentieth century,
starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina, coming from Miramax Films.
This is the true story of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, the
larger-than-life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican
history and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America,
and outrageous personalities made them legendary. Filmed mainly in Mexico,
the movie traces Frida's life from her unbridled high school days to her
death at age 47.
This vivid book includes production notes, details on cinematography,
set and costume design, and visual effects, music, notes by director Taymor,
interviews with the cast, excerpts from books about Frida, reproductions
of artwork, a historical timeline, and background sketches on the real
figures portrayed in the movie.
Frida Kahlo
by Frida Kahlo (Editor), Martin-Luis Lozano (Editor), Luis-Martin Lozano
(Editor)
From Library Journal
In his beautifully illustrated survey of Frida Kahlo's work, Lozano (art
history, Iberoamerican Univ., Mexico City) explores her life and paintings
in a series of essays that range from a poetic study by noted Mexican
cultural critic Carlos Monsiv is to a short, prosaic piece written in
1943 by her husband, Diego Rivera, to an academic essay by Lozano himself.
The common thread is how Kahlo's pre-Columbian background helped her find
her own identity in the world and in the artist circles she frequented.
To create a portrait of a woman so talented yet so tortured, Lozano uses
Kahlo's own stunning images, offering high-quality reproductions of some
of Kahlo's most famous works as well as some of her lesser-known pieces.
Previously unseen photos of Kahlo at work in her studio are also included.
The detail and clarity of the images is incredible, allowing the reader
to explore each painting thoroughly. [For more on the Spanish-language
edition of this book, see Criticas, Fall 2001, p. 41. Ed.]
Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion
of Frida Kahlo
by Carole Maso
Beauty Is Convulsive is a biographical meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. In 1928, at twenty-one, she joined the Communist Party and came to know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, Mexico's most famous painter, was impressed by the force of Kahlo's personality and by the authenticity of her art, and the two soon married. Though they were devoted to each other, intermittent affairs on both sides, Frida's grief over her inability to bear a child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous. This prose poem is typical Maso --vigorous, daring, always original. She brings together parts of Kahlo's biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries with language that is often as erotic and colorful as Kahlo's paintings.
The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas
Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo
