Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

ISBN-13:	9780060085896
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/01/2002
Series:	Harper Perennial
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	145,804
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.18(h) x 1.49(d)

"Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human." — San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle.Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman — with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.