Frida Kahlo : retrospective

Kahlo, Frida.

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The life and work of Frida Kahlo were inextricably intertwined. This beautiful monograph celebrates the artist while exploring the lesser-known aspects of her story. Reproductions of Kahlo's paintings are accompanied by a series of illuminating essays that explore the artist's private writings and the intense public interest in her life, the role of physical and mental suffering in the creative process, and the coded and double meanings hidden in...

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ISBN:

9783791350103
3791350102

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:

Published as a cataog on the occasion of the exhibition held at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Apr. 30-Aug. 9, 2010, and Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Sept. 1-Dec. 5, 2010
Published also 2010 in German with same title
Includes bibliographical references (page 252)
English

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Forewords / Consuelo Sáizar and Teresa Vicencio Álvarez
Foreword / Ingried Brugger, Joachim Sartorius, and Gereon Sievernich
Essays: A small world that's become so big ... / Ingried Brugger
The celestial love story and encoded ciphers in the work of Frida Kahlo / Helga Prignitz-Poda
Any friend of Frida's is a friend of mine, or, who collects Frida Kahlo's art? / Salomon Grimberg
Frida Kahlo, poet on the letters, poems, and notebooks of a literary artist / Peter von Becker
"Frida Icon": the authoritarian eye of Frida Kahlo / Florian Steininger
Frida Kahlo: pain as life / Arnoldo Kraus
Frida Kahlo: a gift-wrapped, anti-Stalinist bomb / Francisco Reyes Palma
Frida Kahlo's human landscape / Jeanette Zwingenberger
Catalog / with texts by Helga Prignitz-Poda, Florian Steininger, and Heike Eipeldauer
The drawings / Helga Prignitz-Poda
Photographs: Photographs as witnesses: Frida Kahlo and photography / Cristina Kahlo
Biographical timeline
Works shown in the exhibition

LCCN:

2010472954

Control Number:

2646166

Other Authors:

Becker, Peter von, 1947- author
Kunstforum Wien, editor
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany), editor
Prignitz-Poda, Helga, curator

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