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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and
Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
by Anthony White (Editor)
Frida
by Barbara Mujica
Book Description
Narrated by Frida Kahlo's younger sister, Cristina, this haunting and
powerful fictional account chronicles Kahlo's life, from a childhood shadowed
by polio to the accident at eighteen that left her barren, from her marriage
to larger-than-life muralist Diego Rivera through her tragic decline into
alcoholism and drug abuse. Through it all, Cristina is her sister's intimate
confidante - and then her bitter antagonist when she has a not-so-secret
affair with Rivera.
Frida Kahlo: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies Series)
by Jack Rummel
Book Description
The third installment of Crossroad Publishing Lives & Legacies series
of spiritual biographies explores the life of Mexican painter and political
activist Frida Kahlo. During her life, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was not
very well known and her paintings sold slowly and for little if they sold
at all. To most Americans, and even to many of her own nation, she was
known as an afterthought: the wife of Mexico's most famous artist, the
talented flamboyant muralist Diego Rivera. However, to a small circle
of artists and friends, Kahlo was valued for her vibrant personality and
striking, intensely original paintings.
Kahlo struggles to win a place for herself as an artist, understand the mystery of a disabling accident, and reconcile her tumultuous private life with her public person. This quest for self-understanding never completely resolved or successful became her spiritual journey-one passionately and publicly expressed in her art. Jack Rummel takes a clear and unsentimental look at the life and work of this "contradictory" woman, on of the most important artists of 20th or any century.
