Kahlo

Andrea Kettenmann

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Taschen
16 September 2015

Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles; Painting & paintings

Series: Basic Art

"The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.

In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid real-surreal language of living: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the Communist political ideals which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as ""the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.""

This book introduces the rich body of Kahlo's work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture."

By: Andrea Kettenmann
Imprint: Taschen
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 618g
ISBN: 9783836500852
ISBN 10: 383650085X
Series: Basic Art
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 16 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrea Kettenmann studied art history in Goettingen and Hamburg before joining the art history department of the University of Hamburg. She has published widely on Frida Kahlo and has contributed to numerous exhibitions and catalogues. She works as a freelance art historian in Mexico City, where she has lived for many years.