Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo

by Heyden Herrera

Paperback, 1983

Status

Checked out

Publication

Perennial (HarperCollins) (1983), Edition: Reprint, 507 pages

Description

An in-depth biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo details her haunting and original painting style, her turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her association with communism, and her love of Mexican culture and folklore.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kaulsu
I know so little about art. Still less about Mexico. Vitually nothing about communism in Mexico. This book alleviated each of these deficiencies to some degree.

Kahlo lived a physically painful life; helped very little, it seems by mid-twentieth century medicine. Either in spite of the physical
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nightmare she endured or because of it, we are left with a record of true genius, however macabre it at times it appears.

Herrera was able to keep me, a self confessed art neophyte, focused for two months as I read 10 pages or so about 5 nights a week.
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LibraryThing member eduscapes
I've always loved a well-written biography. This one reminded me of the biography I read in college about Georgia O'Keefe. After watching the award-winning movie "Frida" based on the book, Larry got me the book for my birthday. The movie and the book are great companions.
LibraryThing member gbjefferso
Part of series of books on Hispanics of Achievement, Frida Kahlo, trails the life of a beautiful, talented young woman who suffers through a series of tragedies and uses the canvass as narrative of her life and well as voice for the political movements of her time. Frida Kahlo's life will capture
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the interest of the young reader, but some of the topics discussed are of a mature nature. The biography could be used cross-curriculum for art, history, social science and English.
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LibraryThing member RebeccaReader
Come for the paintings and stay for her story. Frida's story will leave you fascinated. Herrera is an expert on her life and work.
LibraryThing member MariaKhristina
I read this while I was in Mexico during a 3 week back packing trip. It really was the perfect book to read especially since I could visualize Frida's home ,which I made my boyfriend go to, and all of the big beautiful spaces of Mexico City and Mexico in general.

I also really loved how it examined
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her relationship with Diego Rivera even though it was heartbreaking to read at the same time.
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LibraryThing member kbullfrog
read this book some years ago and it still shapes and haunts me. her life was such an elaborate interweaving of pain and celebration, primal and devastating. Herrera does a magnificent job of balancing a biographical, historical examination of this larger than life figure, along with examining the
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culture that Frida celebrated, with words that could not be more entertaining or insightful.

i would recommend this book to any reader, art lover or not, who wishes to look into a culture, a lifestyle, beyond their own.
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LibraryThing member michaelbartley
I liked this book a lot, ms. herrera brought frida, diego and the art world alive wonderful life wonderful book

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1983

Physical description

507 p.; 9.21 inches

ISBN

0060911271 / 9780060911270
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