Devouring Frida The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo

Name: Devouring Frida The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo
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ISBN: 9780819563484

ISBN-10: 081956348X

ISBN-13: 9780819563484

Edition: N/A

Authors: Margaret A. Lindauer

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Beginning in the late 1970's Frida Kahlo achieved cult heroine status less for her richly surrealist self-portraits than by the popularization of the events of her tumultuous life. Her images were splashed across billboards magazine ads, and postcards; fashion designers copied the so-called "Frida" look in hairstyles and dress; and "Fridamania" even extended to T-shirts, jewelry, and nail polish. Margaret A. Lindauer argues that this mass market assimilation of Kahlo's identity has consistently detracted from appreciation of her work, leading instead to narrow interpretations based on "an entrenched narrative of suffering." While she agrees that Kahlo's political and feminist activism, her…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations



Preface



Introduction: Rereading Frida Kahlo



Frida as a Wife/Artist in Mexico



Frida of the Blood-Covered Paint Brush



The Language of the Missing Mother



Unveiling Politics



Fetishizing Frida



Notes



Bibliography



Index