"[Herrera's] expressive and fluid prose is able to keep pace with
Kahlo's riveting canvases and adds to the experience of viewing them. .
. . A superb tribute." -- Booklist
In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo
painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage,
anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted
heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that
one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with
asbestos.
In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together
numerous paintings and sketches by Kahlo, documenting each with
explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their
meaning for her work.
Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full color
paintings, as well as dozens of black and white pictures and line
illustrations. Among the famous and little-known works included in
Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self Portrait as a
Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I,
Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are
documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to
illuminate the various stages of her life.
