Kahlo, 1907-1954 Pain and Passion - Basic Art 2.0
Andrea Kettenmann, Frida Kahlo
Hardback (29 Jul 2015)


Categories: Art & Photography Art Books Art History Art History: c 1900 - Styles: Surrealism & Dada Paintings Individual Artists, Art Monographs Human Figures Depicted In Art Portraits In Art


Description

The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage, and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.

In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils, and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the Communist political ideals that Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as "the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself."

This book introduces the rich body of Kahlos work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and pioneer of Latin American culture.


About the series


Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHENs Basic Art series features:

a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance

a concise biography

approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions


Product details

ISBN: 9783836500852
Publisher: TASCHEN
Imprint: Taschen
Pub date: 29 Jul 2015
DEWEY: 759.972
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 95
Weight: 618g
Height: 265mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 14mm