This beautifully-illustrated and engrossing biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality and an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences. Born and brought up near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, she suffered a devastating accident aged eighteen, which left her crippled and unable to bear children. Her marriage to the muralist Diego Riviera was tempestuous, and she had many love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky. Absorbed in Mexican folklore and culture and a lover of dramatic spectacle, Kahlo's tumultuous life is that of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman.
- ISBN13 9780747566137
- Publish Date 3 March 2003 (first published 1 August 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition Film tie-in ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 528
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/