- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Walker Art Center; illustrated edition edition (Oct 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0935640886
- ISBN-13: 978-0935640885
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.5 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
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- #22 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( J-L ) > Kahlo, Frida
- #59 in Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Regional > Caribbean & Latin American
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A beautiful exhibition, Nov 26 2007
By Claude Reich - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
This is the catalogue for the current exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.It is divided into three essays: the first studies the artist as a Mexican modernist (the aim being to study her art itself, setting aside the myth), the second follows her life through the numerous photographs that were taken of her and which have survived (she was one of the most photographed artists of the XXth century), and the third describes the legacy of the artist (especially interesting is her influence on contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith).The color plates of Kahlo's works (portraits, self-portraits and still-lifes) which form the exhibition are grouped in one section, as well as a private collection of photographs of both herself and Diego Rivera.
The book is not as complete as the 2005 Tate catalogue as far as the works illustrated are concerned, but the essays are more thorough and give valuable insights on the artist and her art.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Amazing essays on an amazing artist, Jan 7 2008
By helen MciKeever - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
To say that this is a major catalogue from a major exhibit is to ignore the more important point...this is a collection of brilliant essays on Kahlo and stunning photographs of her painting and related works and people in the Kahlo circle, but also Mexican folk art, history and the modernist movement in Mexico. He is also a thrilling writer and critic on the use of allegory and on Kahlo and RIvera's hatred of what Zamudio-Taylor calls "the modern capitalist universe" against which both Kahlo and RIvera rewrote "Mexico's fragmented and violently interrupted history." As Z-T states, "Kahlo's mexicanidad prefigures postmodernism's distrust of progress and linear readings of history. This, most striking article, however, by Zamudio-Taylor who has apparently had extensive contact with her work and its curiatorial special questions, emphasizes Kahlo's work as existing at the cross-roads of a history and of conflicting narratives. He links her concerns not only with other Mexican painters and writers, but also the avant-garde in Paris; namely, Andre Breton. This article is amazing both for its erudition and its multi-dimensionality and detail.This work is a collection also of fabulous paintings, photographs, time lines and for these reasons it is a must have in any library on Mexican art, modernism etc. Z-T is perhaps the most formidable of the authors of essays, but the book has also other major contributors, ie Carpenter, but especially Hayden Herrera and who interrogate Kahlo's legacy also as it influences those who followed, while also following up on the specific riffs in the work of others on the body, on the poetics of self that have their roots in Kahlos combustive images.
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A companion book to the Frida Kahlo exhibit, Nov 29 2007
By E. Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
Frida Kahlo is my personal favorite artist. I love her use of bright, vivid colors for subject matter that is often dark and filled with melancholy. I recently had the immense pleasure of seeing Frida's work in person at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. FRIDA KAHLO is the companion piece to the exhibit. The book focuses more on Frida's work as an artist than her tumultuous personal life which most people know by now thanks to a PBS documentary a few years ago and a biopic. Most of the book contains gorgeous photographs of Frida's paintings. I think this book is definitely worth checking out if you have seen the exhibit. It is a nice to have something to remember when the exhibit closes in January.
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