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Frida Kahlo's arresting pictures were in many ways expressions of trauma. The daughter of an immigrant German photographer father and a Mexican mother of Indian origin, Kahlo (1907-1954) was involved in a serious road accident at the age of 18, which left her with lifelong health problems, including the inability to have a child.

This richly illustrated Basic Art book offers a both accessible and informed introduction to Kahlo's life and work, looking at the artist's dramatic, colourful canvases which combined religious Mexican tradition with Surrealist elements.

These paintings can be seen as reflections both of Kahlo's physical distress and of her volatile marriage to world-famous mural painter Diego Rivera - a tumultuous relationship fraught with furious tempers, numerous extra marital affairs, divorce, and remarriage.

Many works also explore the Communist political ideals Kahlo and Rivera shared. Kahlo's work received posthumous recognition in the late 1970s and was declared the property of the Mexican state in 1983.

Today, she is considered one of the most important 20th-century painters, a feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American art.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Painting & paintings

• Full title: Kahlo
• Author: Andrea Kettenmann
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9783836500852
• ISBN: 383650085X
• ID: 00201923
• Publisher: Taschen GmbH
• Weight: 620 g
• Dimensions: 260 × 210 × 14 mm
• Published: 2015

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