Frida Kahlo / / Gannit Ankori

• Autore: Ankori Gannit
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] : , : Reaktion Books, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Disciplina: 759.972
• Soggetto topico: Women artists - Mexico - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Frida Kahlo; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction: The Artist as Mythmaker; Fissured Tales of Art and Life; 1. Family Tree: 'My Grandparents, My Parents and I'; 2. Childhood Traumas: The Broken Body, the Doubled Self; 3. On the Cusp of Womanhood; 4. Coming of Age; 5. 'The Lost Desire': Relinquishing Maternity; 6. 'Double Sorrow': Losing and Finding Love; 7. 'Where is the "I"?': Losing and Finding her Selves; 8. 'Everything is All and One': Losing and Finding Faith; 9. 'I am the Disintegration': The Waning of Life; 10. Of her Time; Ahead of her Time ; Postscript: Frida Kahlo's Art, Life and LegacyReferences; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera's exotic young wife who "dabbles in art," she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband's shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo's fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through "Fridamania," this book explores Kahlo's life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizi
• Titolo autorizzato: Frida Kahlo
• ISBN: 1-78023-222-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822009903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical lives.