Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life. 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. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews for such publications as Art in America, Art Forum, Connoisseur, and the New York Times, among others. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full-color paintings, as well as dozens of black-and-white pictures and line illustrations. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by Kahlo, documenting each with explanatory text that. The 170-page journal contains the artists thoughts, poems, and dreams-many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera-along. She has lectured widely, curated several exhibitions of art, taught Latin American art at New York University, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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. Frida- Hayden Herrera Frida is the story of one of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. 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 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. 9 (May 1976): 3844 and Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo: An Exhibition, 191054 (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art.
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