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Frida Kahlo, edited by Emma Dexter and Tanya Barson ; with contributions by Gannit Ankori ... [et al.]

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 79) and index

contains biographical information

portraitsillustrations

index present

non fiction

Frida Kahlo

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edited by Emma Dexter and Tanya Barson ; with contributions by Gannit Ankori ... [et al.]

Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. In recent times, public interest in the dramatic details of Kahlo's life has threatened to eclipse serious consideration of her artistic achievement. This beautifully produced book focuses our attention once more on the artistic qualities that make her paintings some of the most iconic images of the last hundred years. Presenting major works alongside the lesser known, and incorporating paintings, drawings and photographs, Frida Kahlo offers a thoroughly researched, accessible overview of her life's work. Essays by international critics are combined with over two hundred illustrations, an illustrated glossary explaining the symbolic background to key elements that recur in her paintings, and a bigraphy detailing the major events of the artist's life. --Jacket

Sponsor's foreword -- Foreword -- Curators' Acknowledgments -- The universal dialectics of Frida Kahlo / Emma Dexter -- Frida Kahlo : The fabric of her work / Gannit Ankori -- Reflecting on Kahlo : Mirrors, Masquerade and the politics of identification / Oriana Baddeley -- 'All art is at once surface and symbol' : A Frida Kahlo glossary / Tanya Barson -- Plates -- Pain-love-liberation : Frida Kahlo's words / Raquel Tibol -- The life of Frida Kahlo / Christina Burrus -- People -- Chronology -- List of exhibited works -- Index