Frida, a biography of Frida Kahlo

By Herrera Hayden, Hayden Herrera

Subjects: Spanish: Adult Nonfiction, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Painters -- Mexico -- Biography, Biography And Autobiography, Biographies, Pintores, Women painters, Biografía, Biografie, Peintres, Kahlo, frida, 1910-1954, Schilderkunst, Artists, biography, Kahlo, Frida, Painters, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Biography / Autobiography, Ethnic Cultures - General

Description: Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle. Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.