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Title: Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish by Martha Zamora, Marilyn Sode Smith, Frida Kahlo ISBN: 0-87701-746-8 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Get the Spanish version
Comment: This edition is a pretty good overview of Frida's life with some outstanding colorful reproductions of her works. There is also a very satisfying collection of photographs, both in black and white and color, to cure the voyeur in you to see Frida as she really lived. For example, if you enlarge the back cover shot here you can see the cigarette in her left hand that she was apparently usually without. If you thought it was only the pain of her life that resulted in very few photographs of her smiling think again. The results of her heavy smoking habit produced a poor set of teeth that were blackened and not very flaterring; hence the rare smiling picture. The book has some rare photographs, including one of her laughing and her hideous teeth. The text is easy to follow and gives a whirlwind tour of Frida's life, complete with recollections by friends and other anecdotes. Included is a chronology, list of illustrations and a selected bibliography. My big complaint about this book, and it may you serve you if you are able to read Spanish, is that it is a short version of the original. I have run down a copy of the original Spanish book, "Frida: El Pincel de la Angustia" and it is highly recommended over this translated version. I cannot over state this recommendation . This version is almost like an abridged text by comparison. Case in point, the original has nearly four times as many pages! The abundance of pages is not filler either as it has many more photographs, paintings and more importantly, text. If you hunt around you can find the original at an affordable price. All in all this is a good addition, but not edition, to your library on Mexcian Art or personal Frida Kahlo book collection.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Introduction to Kahlo's work
Comment: This book is recommended for the reproductions of her work. Zamora gives a nice and thoughtful description of the painter's life. I just finished Kate Braverman's fictional account of the life of Kahlo on her last day--and I highly recommend it! The prose alone transforms Kahlo's paintings into a highly intelligent novel, and uses as a catalyst, one of our most important painter's work as an inspirational canvas for one of our most important writers.
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent biography
Comment: I had no idea who Frida was, untill I saw some of her slides in my self portrait class and that led me to read more about her.
This book is an excellent biography of Frida and has an amazing account of her tragic life and how it transformed her personality, not to mention her paintings and especially her self portraits.
The book covers her major art work and the flow of the book is coincided with her life. You can see what was happening at a particular juncture in her life and what kind of work she was producing.
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Title: Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera ISBN: 0060923199 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Frida : A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera ISBN: 0060085894 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Diary of Frida Kahlo by Carlos Fuentes ISBN: 0810981955 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.98 |
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Title: Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion (Basic Art) by Andrea Kettenmann ISBN: 3822859834 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Frida Kahlo Postcard Book (30 Postcards) by Taschen Publishing ISBN: 3822897655 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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