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Books on Freda Kahlo |
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For Children!
Frida Kahlo: The Artist who Painted Herself
(Smart About Art) (Paperback)
by Margaret Frith (Author), Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)
Grade 3-5-This picture-book biography is a good way to introduce youngsters
to this avant-garde Mexican painter. Told from the viewpoint of a girl
who is doing a report on the famous artist, Kahlo's story is clear,
concise, and accessible. All of the basic facts are here, along with
many personal details that enliven the narrative.Frith does a particularly
good job of explaining artistic terms within the text, and she also
focuses on qualities that make Kahlo's work unique.
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Frida: A Biography
of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by Hayden Herrera (Author)
This is an extremely important, long overdue and commanding work on one
of the most significant artistic personalities of the 20th century. The
author, Hayden Herrera, is perhaps one of the few best qualified writers
to present this indepth, intense penetration into the tumultuous life
and work of such a complex figure in the art world. Frida Kahlo, as readers/viewers
in the United States by now are aware, created some of the most unconventionally
brilliant --even shocking works of arts the world has seen. Herrera's
impeccable scholarship and research skills are impressive and at the
same time delicately compassionate and vibrant.
~Alan Cambeira
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Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
by Hayden Herrera (Author), Victor Zamudio-Taylor (Author), Elizabeth
Carpenter (Editor), Kathy Halbreich (Foreword), Frida Kahlo (Author)
To say that this is a major catalogue from a major
exhibit is to ignore the more important point...this is a collection
of brilliant essays on Kahlo and stunning photographs of her painting
and related works and people in the Kahlo circle, but also Mexican
folk art, history and the modernist movement in Mexico. He is also
a thrilling writer and critic on the use of allegory and on Kahlo and
RIvera's hatred of what Zamudio-Taylor calls "the modern capitalist universe" against which both Kahlo
and RIvera rewrote "Mexico's fragmented and violently interrupted
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
(Hardcover)
by Frida Kahlo (Author), Carlos Fuentes (Introduction), Sarah M. Lowe
(Introduction)
Frida Kahlo's diary, like her art, is painted in breathtakingly vivid
colors. It covers her tumultuous last decade and encompasses love letters,
political musings on Communism, and resplendent paintings. The paintings,
peopled with mythic figures, self-portraits, and monsters, articulate
Kahlo's fantastic visions. One drawing melds a procession of crying faces
onto an intertwined couple surrounded by body parts, only to dissolve
into a mass of roots and dendrites. |
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Frida Kahlo: The Paintings (Paperback)
by Hayden Herrera (Author)
This is easily, and without fluff, the best
Frida Kahlo bio in print. Herrera not only has a great gift with
words, but she truly gets within Kahlo's turbulent times, affairs
and issues to paint a very descriptive world of this brilliant, tortured
woman. |
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For
Children!
Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest
Artists) (Paperback)
by Mike Venezia (Author)
All the Mike Venezia books are abfab. I read them to all of my classes
K-7. The cartoons are great. The story keeps everybody's attention.
They are informative and give a clear picture of the artists. Would
recomend all of them |
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