Frida Kahlo: The Paintings | 
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| Author: Hayden Herrera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 113294
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060923199
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.972
EAN: 9780060923198
ASIN: 0060923199
Publication Date: October 13, 1993
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Condition: New, not a remainder, minor shelf wear to cover from time, shipped in bubble wrap with email confirmation when shipped
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PIn small, stunningly rendered selfndash;portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. /PP Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. /PP In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty fullndash;color paintings, as well as dozens of blackndash;andndash;white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and littlendash;known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Selfndash;Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life. /P
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 Burn it Blue May 5, 2007
Z. Malik (New York, New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great biography that explains everything you'd ever want to know about the adverse yet bittersweet life of the amazing and vibrant soul that is Frida Kahlo. Includes all, if not most of her paintings and explains each one down to the core. Also includes wonderful photos of Frida and the people in her life, throughout her entire life. I totally suggest this one =o)
 Frida's whole life and paintings January 30, 2006
Roxanna Vazquez (San Juan, PR)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are curious to know more about Frida Kahlo's life, inspiration, and paintings, this is the right book to look at. The paintings and photographs create a very complete biography of this great woman and artist. She was ahead of her time. This book is easy and interesting to see and to read.
An extraordinary life in art February 9, 2005
Shalini Sinha
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I know nothing about Mexico or about paintings. And I am least interested to read biographies. Still I found myself intriguied by Frida Kahlo who is a Mexican painter and picked this biography on her life. Her life is very extraordinary as I found out when I watched this movie on her starring Salma Hayek. And I loved this book because it told the story of her through her paintings. br /Its her paintings which make you wanna ask questions, for her paintings are not about pretty flowers or landscape or fishes in the oceans. Many of her paintings are in fact shocking in the way that they are too direct and poignant, and splattered with a lot of blood but still they are not asking for any sympathy or anything at all. Frida was a very talented woman who could make striking poetry on canvas. She painted everything with an element of her in it.... her emotions, her pain, her longing and her feelings. She is all about strength, strong will, determination,and pride. She did not try to do right or wrong thing but live her life her own way, on her rules, a woman who made herself memorable and a legend through her paintings. She inspires because of her gritty life. br /This book is very engrossing read on Frida's life as seen through her paintings.
The best Kahlo bio out there May 28, 2003
F. Lennox Campello (Potomac, MD United States)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is easily, and without fluff, the best Frida Kahlo bio in print. Herrera not only has a great gift with wordds, but she truly gets within Kahlo's turbulent times, affairs and issues to paint a very descriptive world of this brilliant, tortured woman.
A beautiful, beautiful book December 28, 2002
Michele Cozzens (Cloud 8)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
My children gave this book to me for Christmas as a companion to Frida's biography. It is beautiful and comprehensive. A must-have for any fan of her work.
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