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Frida Kahlo (Basic Art)
£15.00
Publication date: 15 July 2015
A striking introduction to Frida Kahlo’s life and art — exploring how she transformed pain, passion, and politics into visionary self-portraits that redefined identity, resilience, and beauty, securing her place as a pioneering icon of modern and Latin American art.
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About Frida Kahlo (Basic Art)
The arresting self-portraits of Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) stand as vivid expressions of pain, resilience, and defiance. Following a near-fatal bus accident at 18 and enduring a lifetime of physical and emotional suffering – from chronic illness to a turbulent marriage, miscarriage, and childlessness – Kahlo transformed her trauma into revolutionary art.
Through her unflinching gaze, Kahlo redefined self-portraiture, merging reality and symbolism in a deeply personal visual language. Her canvases teem with imagery of roots, veins, and vines – metaphors for both connection and confinement – while her politics and passion for Mexican identity imbued her work with cultural and ideological depth.
Rejecting victimhood, she used painting as a means of survival and self-definition, once describing her art 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 celebrates Kahlo’s extraordinary life and legacy – as an artist, a feminist icon, and a pioneering voice of Latin American modernism.
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| Format | Hardcover |
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| Format | Hardcover |
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| ISBN | 978-3836500807 |
| Publisher | TASCHEN |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Dimensions | 21 x 1.6 x 26 cm |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 15 July 2015 |
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
