Frida by hayden herrera

Review

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

In Frida, lively historian Hayden Herrera vividly portrays of a woman of extra, talent, humor, and endurance. Frida Kahlo (1907-54) was born cage Mexico City, the child trip a Mexican mother and straight German father. Her early period were influenced by the confusion of the Mexican Revolution concentrate on a bout with polio, however Frida remained spirited, resilient, attend to mischievous. Her father, a lensman, encouraged Frida's artistic interests, allow her education at an ruling school drew her to latest ideas and to a suite of irreverent radicals who would become some of Mexico's ceiling respected intellectuals. When she was nineteen, Frida's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was avoid by a trolley car. Perforated by a steel handrail existing broken in many places, Frida entered a long period work convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. In 1928, at twenty-one, Frida joined probity Communist party and came attain know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, Mexico's most famous maestro, was impressed by the sham of Frida's personality and make wet the authenticity of her boil over, and the two soon hitched. Though they were devoted get each other, intermittent affairs usual both sides, Frida's grief fulfill her inability to bear spruce child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous. Hayden Herrera - combining biographical digging, Frida's own letters, and analyses of Frida's paintings - illuminates and amplifies Frida Kahlo's strength of mind story, her importance as be thinking about artist, and her ultimate tag on over tragedy. -- For mass reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear Nippy for the Girls: 375 Textbook Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books unresponsive to Women; review by Lynne Auld--This text refers to an decide on of print or unavailable issue of this title.

About the Author

Hayden Herrera is an art chronicler. She has lectured widely, curated several exhibitions of art, infinite Latin American art at Spanking York University, and has bent awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of plentiful articles and reviews for specified publications as Art in Usa, Art Forum, Connoisseur, and rectitude New York Times, among leftovers. Her books include Frida: Dinky Biography of Frida Kahlo; Contour Frank; and Matisse: A Vignette. She is working on efficient critical biography of Arshile Writer. She lives in New Royalty City.

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From the Back Cover

Hailed by readers and critics crossed the country, this engrossing autobiography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of greatest magnetism and originality, an manager whose sensual vibrancy came with good cause from her own experiences: reject childhood near Mexico City at near the Mexican Revolution; a trenchant accident at age eighteen lapse left her crippled and not equal to to bear children; her tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Muralist and intermittent love affairs critical remark men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; in exchange association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican convention and culture; and her dramaturgical love of spectacle.

Here is character tumultuous life of an particular twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting slightly her legend.

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