Herrera chronicles the life of Mexico's leading female painter, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her illness, and the accident that changed her life forever. Beyond biography, FRIDA places the artist in her time, examining the political and cultural forces of the day that influenced her haunting portraits.
Herrera chronicles the life of Mexico's leading female painter, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her illness, and the accident that changed her life forever. Beyond biography, FRIDA places the artist in her time, examining the political and cultural forces of the day that influenced her haunting portraits.
The art and life of Frida Kahlo have become the focus of intense admiration in the last ten years, especially following the publication of Hayden Herrera's biography. Two films and a documentary have been made of her life. Kahlo was a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own ...
The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most famous artists of all time. However, while much has been written about Kahlo's striking self-portraits (of which some 80 are known), her still-life paintings (of which 40 or so are documented) have not been subjected to such close scrutiny until now. In this groundbreaking study, noted ...
Joan Snyder's introduction into the New York art world began with a series of Stroke paintings completed in the 1970s. These paintings were included in the Whitney 1973 Biennial and the Corcoran 1975 Biennial, and were the basis of her first solo shows in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Although often placed under various umbrellas ...
Vivid and entertaining, Hayden Herrera's brief critical biography of Henri Matisse brings to life a man who, despite a tumultuous emotional life, sought to create "an art of balance, of purity and serenity". Abundantly illustrated in color and black and white, it is a work of art in itself.
The history of American art has been, in many respects, an emulation of, or reaction to, European art. In order to examine the artistic cross-currents between the two continents, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has organized a series of three exhibitions based on its permanent collection of 20th-century American Art, and curated by ...
Frida Kahlo's extraordinary life has been well documented, but until now little has been known about the artist's thoughts on her internal and external reality. In Song of Herself, Kahlo expert and child psychiatrist Salomon Grimberg introduces and contextualizes an inumate, deeply introspective interview that Kahlo gave towards the end of her ...
This beautifully-illustrated and engrossing biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality and an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences. Born and brought up near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, she suffered a devastating accident aged eighteen, which left ...
Throughout her career, Mary Frank's art has been continually developing within a series of broad themes, new compositions, new mediums, and new sensations. In this monograph of Mary Frank's career to date, the author traces the evolution of the artist's sculpture - in wood, wax, plaster and clay.
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