Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon

by Frida Kahlo and Margaret Hooks

Sylvie Aubenas (Photographer)

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Frida Kahlo's revealing, often pain-filled self-portraits have provoked intense curiosity about who she really was. To understand this richly complicated woman requires a willingness to read between the lines, because the story of Frida Kahlo is like Frida herself--magnetic, profound, and occasionally shocking.

Frida Kahlo's life and art have made her a twentieth-century heroine. Struck by polio at age six and nearly killed in a bus accident at eighteen, she grew up to marry the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera and to become Mexico's best-known woman painter. This brief biography of Kahlo (1907-54), first published in 1991 in the Barnard Biography Series, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.

  • ISBN10 8475065430
  • ISBN13 9788475065434
  • Publish Date 1 January 2003 (first published 1 November 1995)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Imprint Turner (Spain)
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 152
  • Language Spanish