Kahlo

Name: Kahlo
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ISBN: 9783822859834

ISBN-10: 3822859834

ISBN-13: 9783822859834

Edition: 2003

Authors: Andrea Kettenmann

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Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state.Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven than in almost any other artist’s case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was eighteen, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis. It was in her sick bed that she first started to paint.…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: TASCHEN
Publication date: 8/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Andrea Kettenmann (born in 1959) studied art history in Gieï¿½en, Gï¿½ttingen and Heidelberg before joining the art history department of the University of Hamburg. In 1986 she visited Mexico on a fellowship, and now lives there, working as a freelance art historian. She has now worked on a number of exhibitions and catalogues, including the catalogue for the retrospective on Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo's husband, in Detroit.



"Peg-leg Frida"--a rebellious girl


The delicate dove and the fat frog


A Mexican artist in "Gringolandia"


Despair and success


"These surgeon sons of bitches"


"I hope the exit is joyful..."


Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Life and work


List of Illustrations


Notes