Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Modernism

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Tansy Curtin

Frida & Diego

Love & Revolution The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Modernism

Tansy Curtin

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Art Gallery of South Australia
14 July 2023

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At the centre of the story of twentieth-century Mexican art, Frida Kahlo and

Diego Rivera are known not simply for their artistic contribution to the nation but

also for their fascinating and all-consuming love affair. Twenty years her senior,

Rivera was already a celebrated artist when he met Kahlo in 1928. Kahlo had

only just begun to paint following a catastrophic bus crash, which had left her

with severe injuries and bedridden for several months. After their marriage, the

couple became Mexico's art celebrities, with their lives and dramas covered in

local newspapers. Kahlo and Rivera were artists of international renown, yet their

story, and that of their contemporaries, is also deeply enmeshed with their sense

of Mexicanness.

This publication replete with luscious full-page reproductions and contextual

photographs introduces us to Frida and Diego and the world they inhabited -

their art, friends and above all else, their mutual love of Mexico's people and

culture.

By: Tansy Curtin
Imprint: Art Gallery of South Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 293mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1.296kg
ISBN: 9781921668593
ISBN 10: 1921668598
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 14 July 2023
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active