Research Catalog

Title

Frida Kahlo and arte popular / Layla Bermeo.

Author

Bermeo, Layla

Publication

• Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2022.
• New York : Artbook D.A.P.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kahlo, Frida
• Rejes Mejía, Laura Susana
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.

Description

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 28 cm

Summary

"The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular--painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexico's rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché, and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity. This bilingual book, the first in-depth exploration of Kahlo's varied and sophisticated responses to arte popular, situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions, and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico"--

Subject

• Kahlo, Frida > Exhibitions
• Kahlo, Frida > Criticism and interpretation
• Kahlo, Frida
• 1900-1999
• Painting, Mexican > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Mexican > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Women artists > Mexico
• Folk art > Mexico > Influence > Exhibitions
• Handicraft in art > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Mexican
• Art, Mexican
• Women artists
• Criticism and interpretation
• Folk art > Influence
• Folk art
• Handicraft in art
• Mexico

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 27-June 19, 2019.
• The text is presented twice: pages 13-125 are in English, followed by pages 128-201 which are in Spanish. Full-size images appear with the English text, with small-size images in the Spanish text.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biography (note)

• Layla Bermeo is Kristin and Roger Servison Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Language (note)

• Text in English with translation in Spanish.

Contents

Fine, folk, and "junk" = Bellas artes, arte popular y pura basura -- Art of the people = Arte del pueblo -- Invented traditions = Tradiciones inventadas -- Painted miracles = Milagros pintados -- Playthings = Juguetes -- Living still lifes = Naturalezas vivas.

Call Number

JQF 23-198

ISBN

• 9780878468881
• 0878468889

LCCN

2022938121

OCLC

1317309095

Author

Bermeo, Layla, author, curator.

Title

Frida Kahlo and arte popular / Layla Bermeo.

Publisher

Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2022.

Distributor

New York : Artbook D.A.P.

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biography

Layla Bermeo is Kristin and Roger Servison Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Language

Text in English with translation in Spanish.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Kahlo, Frida, artist. Artist

Rejes Mejía, Laura Susana, translator.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 23-198