Research Catalog

Title

Frida Kahlo / edited by Elizabeth Carpenter ; texts by Elizabeth Carpenter, Hayden Herrera, and Victor Zamudio Taylor.

Author

Kahlo, Frida

Publication

Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carpenter, Elizabeth, 1965-
• Herrera, Hayden
• Zamudio-Taylor, Victor
• Walker Art Center
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Description

320 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

"Frida Kahlo's paintings and person illustrate the inevitable intertwining of freedom and pain, embodying the heroic reclamation of self and the repudiation of social repression through the art-making process. She is a woman both of her time and ours. Born in 1907, on the cusp of a new century, she was a radical in imagining and then asserting a peculiarly adventuresome artistic, sexual, and political identity. In her paintings she blurred the realms of saints and shamans as well as the cosmological and the technological, often permitting shockingly personal depictions of her physical and psychological pain to bleed into the iconography of Mexico's Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary history. This overturning of traditional approaches to thinking, seeing, and fantasizing is clear in the fearless self-portraits Kahlo constructed as well as in the life she lived." "This richly illustrated catalogue features more than 80 of Kahlo's works, including the hauntingly seductive and often brutal self-portraits, as well as a selection of key portraits and still-lifes that span the years of her career, up to her death in 1954, New critical essays by Elizabeth Carpenter, Hayden Herrera, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor examine Kahlo's position within art history and visual culture. Also reproduced are more than 100 photographs that belonged to Kahlo and her husband, renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, some taken by eminent photographers of the period such as Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, Tina Modotti, and Nickolas Muray. More personal snapshots show Kahlo with family and friends, among them luminaries Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky, and many carry graphic inscriptions and interventions by the artist. An illustrated timeline, bibliography, and exhibition history offer added context."--Jacket.

Subject

• Kahlo, Frida > Self-portraits > Exhibitions
• Kahlo, Frida > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 27, 2007-Jan. 20, 2008; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 20-May 18, 2008; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif., June 14-Sept. 28, 2008.
• "Guest-curated by Hayden Herrera with cocurator Elizabeth Carpenter."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-301) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Frida Kahlo, Mexican modernist / Victor Zamudio-Taylor -- Photographic memory : a life (and death) in pictures / Elizabeth Carpenter -- Frida Kahlo's legacy : the poetics of self / Hayden Herrera -- Timeline (1907-1954) -- Plates -- Photographs from the Vicente Wolf collection.

ISBN

• 9780935640885 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0935640886 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007033341

OCLC

• 154788584
• SCSB-11195689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library