Frida Kahlo

The Painter and Her Work

Helga Prignitz-Poda

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Prestel Verlag
01 November 2022

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist's life and work.

Few painters have been as celebrated and adopted into popular culture as Frida Kahlo - often to the detriment of her amazing achievements as a painter.

In this striking volume, one of the world's foremost scholars on Kahlo's art looks past the hype to focus on the artist's technique and motifs. Reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, along with selected details, are accompanied by illuminating observations about the role of physical and mental suffering in the creative process, Kahlo's mastery and reinvention of European traditions, and the wealth of coded and metaphorical elements hidden in so much of her work.

A rich and rewarding exploration of an artist all too easily reduced to a single narrative, this nuanced study is also an exquisitely produced celebration of Kahlo's genius.

AUTHOR: Helga Prignitz-Poda is an art historian and specialist in Latin American studies and lives in Berlin. She is a specialist on Frida Kahlo and a co-editor of the catalogue raisonné of Frida Kahlo's work.

175 colour illustrations

By: Helga Prignitz-Poda
Imprint: Prestel Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 289mm, Width: 244mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1.673kg
ISBN: 9783791379609
ISBN 10: 3791379607
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

HELGA PRIGNITZ-PODA is an art historian and specialist in Latin American studies and lives in Berlin. She is a specialist on Frida Kahlo and a co-editor of the catalogue raisonne of Frida Kahlo's work.