Research Catalog
Frida Kahlo and arte popular
- Title
- Frida Kahlo and arte popular / Layla Bermeo.
- Author
- Kahlo, Frida
- Publication
- Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2022.
- ©2022
- New York : Artbook D.A.P.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ND259.K33 A4 2022g | Off-site |
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- 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
- Mexico
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 27-June 19, 2019.
- 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 and 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
- ND259.K33
- ISBN
- 0878468889
- 9780878468881
- OCLC
- 1317309095
- on1317309095
- SCSB-14405184
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries