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Kahlo, Frida - frēˈdä käˈlō, 1907–54, Mexican painter, b. Coyoacán. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are


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    Frida Kahlo: An Open Life » Read Now

    by Raquel Tibol, Elinor Randall. 230 pgs.

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    ...Frida Kahlo An Open Life Frida Kahlo An Open Life Raquel Tibol Translated by Elinor Randall...University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque Originally published as Frida...
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    Frida Kahlo: A Self-Proclaiming Self-Portrait Artist, in School Arts » Read Now

    by Kandace Steadman, Ande Cook. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...Frida Kahlo: a self-proclaiming self-portrait artist...self-obsession and pain found in the artwork of Frida Kahlo mirror the major events in her life. Born...painting on...
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    Critical Passions: Selected Essays (Includes "'Manhattan Will Be More Exotic This Fall': The Iconization of Frida Kahlo" begins on p. 39) » Read Now

    by Jean Franco, Mary Louise Pratt, Kathleen Newman. 544 pgs.

    Jean Franco's work as a path-breaking theorist, cultural critic, & scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- & Spanish-speaking worlds. Critical Passions is the...
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    45 Contemporary Mexican Artists: A Twentieth-Century Renaissance ("Frida Kahlo" begins on p. 121) » Read Now

    by Virginia Stewart. 174 pgs.

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    ...JESUS GUERRERO GALVAN FRIDA KAHLO FRANCISCO DOSAMANTES...page 119 FRIDA KAHLO 120 SELF-PORTRAIT...Enrique Assad, Agustin Lazo, Frida Kahlo, Manuel Lozano, Diego Rivera...
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    The Trouble with Frida Kahlo: Uncomfortable Truths about This Season's Hottest Female Artist, in Washington Monthly » Read Now

    by Stephanie Mencimer. 7 pgs.

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    ...The trouble with Frida Kahlo: uncomfortable truths about this seasons...of the late Mexican painter-cum-icon Frida Kahlo, who was so proud of her luxurious...been so...
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    Women Artists of Color: A Bio-critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas (Chap. 2 "Latin American Women Artists") » Read Now

    by Phoebe Farris. 502 pgs.

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    Critical essays on 20th-century female artists of color focus on how these distinguised artists achieved success, what makes their work important--both to the art world and to their specific communities--and what influences their work is likely to have in the future. The artists are representative...
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    The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (Chap. 21 "Diego Picks Himself a Comrade" and Chap. 32 "The Death of Frida Kahlo") » Read Now

    by Bertram D. Wolfe. 460 pgs.

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    A story of heroic proportions, "The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera" captures a career more extravagant and dramatic than most fiction. It is peopled by Rivera's friends and enemies, men such as Picasso, Cocteau, Trotsky and Rockefeller, by his many, many women, including four wives, and by his...
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    The House of Sunshine and Pain, in Americas (English Edition) » Read Now

    by Ron Butler. 4 pgs.

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    ...by Ron Butler When the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City finally reopened...is the lifetime director of the Frida Kahlo Museum. However, when the renovation...in the past...
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    Strike a Pose: The Framing of Madonna and Frida Kahlo, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now

    by Janis Bergman-Carton. 13 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Pose: The Framing of Madonna and Frida Kahlo Janis Bergman-Carton In...actor Warren Beatty and painter Frida Kahlo. The inclusion of Beatty, with...dramatic instance of...
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    Surrealism and the Exotic (Discussion of Frida Kahlo begins on p. 180) » Read Now

    by Louise Tythacott. 253 pgs.

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    Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean made by wealthy aesthetes, it combines an insight into the mentality of early twentieth century collectors with an...
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    Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture, Vol. II: M-Z ("Women Artists" begins on p. 1586) » Read Now

    by Michael S. Werner. 1014 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture seeks to present an overview of the specific events and broad processes of Mexican history, society and culture from ancient civilizations to the present day.

    This two-volume work consists of some 600 entries. A collaborative effort that has...

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    A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ("Kahlo, Frida (1907-54)" begins on p. 308) » Read Now

    by Ian Chilvers. 686 pgs.

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    From Renoir and Picasso to Red Grooms and Guerrilla Girls, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art available in a one volume. Compiled by Ian Chilvers, the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, it is both authoritative and accessible, with generous use of anecdote and clear...

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