Frida, a biography of Frida Kahlo

Description:

Hailed 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.

subjects: Biographies,  Pintores,  Painters,  Peintres,  Schilderkunst,  Biography,  Biografía,  Kahlo, Frida,  Painters -- Mexico -- Biography,  Women,  Biography And Autobiography,  Biography & Autobiography,  Biography / Autobiography,  Spanish: Adult Nonfiction,  Artists, Architects, Photographers,  Ethnic Cultures - General,  Women painters,  Biografie,  Kahlo, frida, 1910-1954

People: Frida Kahlo,  Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Places: Mexico,  México,  Mexique