Frida Kahlo
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Bibliographic Information
Frida Kahlo
Walker Art Center, c2007
Available at 5 libraries
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 27, 2007-Jan. 20, 2008; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 20-May 18, 2008; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif., June 16-Sept. 28, 2008
"Guest-curated by Hayden Herrera with cocurator Elizabeth Carpenter."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-301) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. During her lifetime, she was best known as the flamboyant wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship: Rivera declared himself to be unfit for fidelity. As if to assuage her pain, Kahlo recorded the vicissitudes of her marriage in paint. She also recorded the misery of her deteriorating health the orthopaedic corsets that she was forced to wear, the numerous spinal surgeries, the miscarriages and abortions. The artist's sometimes harrowing imagery is mitigated by an intentional primitivism and small scale, as well as by her sardonic humour and extraordinary imagination.
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