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A biography of the Mexican woman painter discussing her work and its international reputation, her political ties, and her relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera. ... Read more

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Isolda P. Kahlo, unica sobreviviente de la familia Kahlo, ha dejado estas memorias: DE LA MANO DE SUS DUENDES INFANTILES RECORRE DE NUEVO LA "CASA AZUL" DE COYOACÁN, ENTRE SOMBRAS CRECIDAS: SU INFANCIA HA SIDO UN MAR TURBULENTO. ABRE PUERTAS CERRADAS, PASAJES OCULTOS... NO PUEDE LLEVARSE TODA ESA CARGA DE SILENCIOS A CUESTAS, NI ES POSIBLE APOSTARLE POR MÁS TIEMPO AL ESPEJISMO ENGAÑADOR. OFRECE SU ÁLBUM DE FOTOGRAFÍAS INÉDITAS AL OJO DE LOS LECTORES Y DOCUMENTOS QUE AVALAN LO DICHO. AL CAER LAS PIEZAS QUE LO MAQUILLABAN SURGE UNA VERDAD CLAVE EN LA INTERPRETACIÓN DE LOS HECHOS. ... Read more

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Exhibition Catalog of Kahlo Photos
This book (catalog) was published to accompany the "Lola Alvarez Bravo Traveling Exhibition".The curator for the exhibition was Salomon Grimberg, a well known Kahlo "Guru" and author of several Kahlo books.The exhibition was held at three venues:

1) Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Sept - Oct 1991)

2) The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (Nov 1991 - Mar 1992)

3) The Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Apr - Jun 1992)

Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexico's foremost woman photographer and a personal friend of Frida Kahlo.Lola photographed Kahlo many time during the 1940s and 1950s.This book contains 50 black and white photos taken by Bravo...some not before seen in other books.Most of the photos in this book are of Frida but it also includes photos of some of her paintings and photos of "The Blue House" where Kahlo was born, lived and died.

The 4 page "Introduction" portion of this book is written by Salomon Grimberg.In it he describes his association with Bravo and also provides commentary on some of Kahlo's more famous works.Following the introduction is a 5 page interview with Lola Alvarez Bravo.In this interview she tells of her fascination with photographing Kahlo and their enduring friendship to the very end.One of Bravo's most haunting photos in this book is of the deceased Kahlo on her death bed.

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Frida Kahlo, the writer? In this new expanded edition of the painter's writings, art critic Raquel Tibol gathers letters, poems, notes, protests, confessions, brief messages and longer texts written by Kahlo to her friends, her lovers and others. In her writings, Kahlo employs, in Tibol's words, an "unreserved, imaginative language, heart and intimacy laid bare," that reveals her taste for neologisms, colloquial turns and the crossing of linguistic boundaries. The freedom of her language is a path towards sincerity, the origin of Kahlo's pictorial universe, with its recurring motifs: the tramway accident that left the artist physically maimed at the age of 18; her anguished and demanding adolescent passion for Alejandro Gomez Arias; her complex and fascinating relationship with Diego Rivera; her illness as destiny; her political engagements; and her uncompromising quest for liberty. Here the reader will find Kahlo "swinging back and forth between sincerity and manipulation, self-complacency and self-flagellation, with her insatiable need for affection, her erotic upheavals, her touches of humor, setting no limits for herself, with a capacity for self-analysis and a deep humility." By gathering this material, until now scattered in archives and various published sources, Tibol offers us "a tacit autobiography and the placement of Frida within the intimate, confessional literature of the twentieth century in Mexico." This is a Frida Kahlo far removed from the distorted image so often found in films, plays and supposedly serious writings and studies--a beautiful book about Frida, by Frida. ... Read more

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Amazing!
This book is a true link to Frida through her art and letters. I learned more than I imagined and felt connected to her in a way no other work has allowed me. It is a wondeful read.

Must have
This is a must-have book for all Frida fans. I only wish that the letters of the people she was writing to had also been retrieved and included in the book.

Just Frida
Letters are windows into the soul. Frida needed to love and of course to be loved. Her letters are tender and we see her need for love. Strong yet she must havelost confidence in her womanly powers from the accident and her ealier polio . Am I desirable? This I am sure she worried over. Diego's lust for other women must have caused Frida much pain as well. She writes often of what she will do to please others. Is it any wonder.

Wonderful book
I absolutely adore this work.I own all literature on Frida Khalo and this book is my favorite.For Frida Khalo fans , this book is an absolute must have in your collection ... Read more

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informative but brief
This book provides a slightly different perspective than in the Hayden Herrera biography. For example, the marriage of Frida and Diego is recorded in a completely different fashion.( I won't spoil the details.) Another contrast is that Frida is presented in a less glowing manner than in Herrera's biography. Her unattractive traits are given attention.

All in all, a very enriching book. ... Read more

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The Complete Works of Frida Kahlo - Catalogue/Raisonné
In 1988, three renowned Kahlo "Gurus", Helga Prignitz-Poda, Salomón Grimberg and Andrea Kettenmann, embarked upon an ambitious project to identify and catalog every piece of Kahlo art: paintings, drawings, sketches, watercolors and some artifacts.They published their findings in this 309 page catalogue raisonné called "Frida Kahlo - Das Gesamtwerk" (The Complete Works).The book provides the following information about each piece: an image of the piece (some color and some B/W), Title (English, Spanish and German), Size, Medium, Date, Location (as of 1988), Signed or Not Signed, and Dated or Not Dated.A brief commentary is provided for some of the pieces.

All of the text in this book is in German.However, with all of the FREE online translation software available, you can get a fairly decent translation of the data you're interested in.It's the most complete list of her works that I've ever seen and it contains works that I have never seen before.However, since its publication 20 years ago, other works have surfaces that are not referenced in this catalogue and the location of some works has changed.

This book is out of print but used editions are available for sale....but expensive.This book is sometimes available in libraries so check your local library if you're interested.
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Berthe Morisot, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Jeanne Laganne, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, Frida Kahlo, Georgette Piccon, Jacqueline Lamba, Eva Gonzalès, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Bracha L. Ettinger, Hélène de Beauvoir, Élisabeth Vigée le Brun, Marie Bashkirtseff, Françoise Basseporte, Danièle Rochon, Elvire Jan, Tove Jansson, Nancy Crater, Myriam Bat-Yosef, Maria Manton, Séraphine de Senlis, Baya, Rosa Bonheur, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Assumpció Oristrell, Nathalie Gobin, Béatrice Appia, Tamara de Lempicka, Cybèle Varela, Sara, Hilma Af Klint, Li Shuang, Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva, Alma Mahler, Unica Zürn, María Izquierdo, Monique Harvey, Elisabetta Sirani, Yvonne Jean-Haffen, Gabriele Münter, Käthe Kollwitz, Leonor Fini, Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon, Marie Laurencin, Sonia Delaunay, Lubna Agha, Rosalba Carriera, Varvara Stepanova, Onorata Rodiani, Remedios Varo Uranga, Blanche Hoschedé, Diana Quinby, Louise Catherine Breslau, Rotraut, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Solange Bertrand, Clara Désiré, Rosalie Filleul, Anita de Caro, Leonora Carrington, Madeleine Fié-Fieux, Marie Raymond, Marie Vorobieff, Toyen, Orita Leprohon, Sabine Zlatin, María Blanchard, Clementina Gandolfi, Nelly Marez-Darley, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Louise Moillon, Marianne Stokes, Huguette Arthur Bertrand, Vanessa Bell, Marie-Louise Petiet, Ariane Laroux, Jacqueline Marval, Anne Bonnet, Madeleine Boullogne, Orsola Maddalena Caccia, Véra Pagava, Sophía Vári, Fiona Rae, Levina Teerlinc, Aurélie Nemours, Mady de La Giraudière, Joëlle Morin, Odette Ducarre, Dora Carrington, Nélie Jacquemart, Valentine Hugo, Agnès Martin, Aloïse Corbaz, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Emily Carr, Sophie Rude, Anne-Marie Jaccottet, Espérance Langlois, Najia Mehadji, L...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more