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Frida Kahlo : Self-portrait with cropped hair / Jodi Roberts.
- Title
- Frida Kahlo : Self-portrait with cropped hair / Jodi Roberts.
- Author
- Roberts, Jodi,
- Publication
- New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N6559.K34 A72 2019g | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kahlo, Frida.
- Description
- 45 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man?s suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo?s (1907?54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940). Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo?s. In the wake of a divorce from artist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns to her favorite genre, self-portraiture, to express her deepest emotional and psychological urges. Inscribed with the lyrics of a popular song that translate as ?Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that you?re without it I no longer love you,? the work oscillates between evocations of a popular culture shared by many and unflinching forays into the private sphere. Curator Jodi Roberts' essay, too, moves between the public and the private as it situates Kahlo?s painting in the context of the Mexican Revolution?s legacy, the Surrealist tradition and the artist?s own life to explore the ways in which Kahlo constructed and reconstructed her own identity.
- Series Statement
- One on one series
- Uniform Title
- 1 on one.
- Alternative Title
- Self-portrait with cropped hair
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Self-portraits.
- Note
- "Each volume in the One on One series is a sustained meditation on a single work from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art"--Page 2 of cover.
- ISBN
- 9781633450752
- 1633450759
- LCCN
- 2018968465
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries