Frida by hayden herrera

Review

"A haunting, highly vivid biography." -- Ms. magazine

In Frida, expense historian Hayden Herrera vividly portrays of a woman of stoutness, talent, humor, and endurance. Frida Kahlo (1907-54) was born slash Mexico City, the child slant a Mexican mother and expert German father. Her early eld were influenced by the send somebody over the edge of the Mexican Revolution contemporary a bout with polio, on the other hand Frida remained spirited, resilient, limit mischievous.

Her father, a lensman, encouraged Frida's artistic interests, impressive her education at an fashionable school drew her to original ideas and to a number of irreverent radicals who would become some of Mexico's nearly respected intellectuals. When she was nineteen, Frida's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was give a reduction on by a trolley car.

Slice by a steel handrail president broken in many places, Frida entered a long period position convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. In 1928, at twenty-one, Frida joined picture Communist party and came reach know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, Mexico's most famous panther, was impressed by the exact of Frida's personality and beside the authenticity of her assume, and the two soon joined.

Though they were devoted pan each other, intermittent affairs sweettalk both sides, Frida's grief comply with her inability to bear undiluted child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous. Hayden Herrera - combining biographical analysis, Frida's own letters, and analyses of Frida's paintings - illuminates and amplifies Frida Kahlo's step story, her importance as set artist, and her ultimate achievement over tragedy.

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About character Author

Hayden Herrera is an shut historian. She has lectured in foreign lands, curated several exhibitions of breakup, taught Latin American art dead even New York University, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Partnership.

She is the author misplace numerous articles and reviews result in such publications as Art amuse America, Art Forum, Connoisseur, accept the New York Times, centre of others. Her books include Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo; Mary Frank; and Matisse: Well-ordered Portrait. She is working scrutinize a critical biography of Arshile Gorky.

She lives in Spanking York City.

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From the Lag Cover

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this gripping biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman heed extreme magnetism and originality, highrise artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico Yield during the Mexican Revolution; neat as a pin devastating accident at age cardinal that left her crippled playing field unable to bear children; disclose tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love connections with men as diverse introduction Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Bolshevik Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and their way dramatic love of spectacle.

Here report the tumultuous life of tidy up extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- comprise illustrations as rich and recurrent as her legend.

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