Research Catalog

Title

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera : from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection / Nicholas Chambers, Robert R Littman, Michael Brand.

Author

Chambers, Nicholas

Publication

• Sydney, N.S.W. Art Gallery of New South Wales, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Littman, Robert
• Brand, Michael, 1958-
• Kahlo, Frida.
• Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957.
• Art Gallery of New South Wales host institution.
• Heard Museum, host institution.

Description

88 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 22 cm

Summary

Leading twentieth-century Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were internationally acclaimed in their lifetime, and their art and lives have continued to provoke and captivate audiences. The works of Kahlo and Rivera demonstrate their fierce independence and the uniqueness of their artistic visions. Rivera's art projected outwards, often on a vast scale, and was concerned with the construction of a national identity in post-revolutionary Mexico; Kahlo's art turned inwards and represented Mexicanidad through an exploration of the artist's own identity. Kahlo's poor health, compounded by a tragic trolley-bus accident in her teens, informs much of her work. Beyond their art, the lives of Kahlo and Rivera were socially and politically active and their union often volatile. This publication presents the pair in a 'dialogue'. It includes an introduction to their art and lives as well as an essay by Diego on Frida's art written in 1943 and an essay written by Frida on Diego's art written in 1949. Each essay is followed by their artworks including outstanding selfportrait paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo, and major examples of Diego Rivera's canvas paintings. Selected photographs by figures such as Edward Weston, Lola Alvarez Bravo and Frida's father, Guillermo Kahlo, provide insights into the artists' worlds and their intriguing relationship.

Subject

• Kahlo, Frida > Exhibitions
• Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 > Exhibitions
• Gelman, Jacques > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Gelman, Natasha > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Painting, Mexican > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Australian

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 25-October 9, 2016; and the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, April 9-August 20, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Michael Brand, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales -- Jacques and Natasha Gelman / Robert R Littman, President and Director of the Vergel Foundation -- Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera / Nicholas Chambers -- Frida Kahlo and Mexican art / by Diego Rivera -- Portrait of Diego / by Frida Kahlo -- Frida and Diego: a timeline -- List of works.

ISBN

• 9781741741230
• 1741741238

OCLC

945657100

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library