Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. During her lifetime, she was best known as the flamboyant wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship: Rivera declared himself to be unfit for fidelity. As if to assuage her pain, Kahlo recorded the vicissitudes of her marriage in paint. She also recorded the misery of her deteriorating health the orthopaedic corsets that she was forced to wear, the numerous spinal surgeries, the miscarriages and abortions. The artist's sometimes harrowing imagery is mitigated by an intentional primitivism and small scale, as well as by her sardonic humour and extraordinary imagination.
- ISBN10 0935640886
- ISBN13 9780935640885
- Publish Date 1 October 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Walker Art Centre,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English