Frida Kahlo: The Paintings in Bloomington, MN

"[Herrera's] expressive and fluid prose is able to keep pace with Kahlo's riveting canvases and adds to the experience of viewing them. . . . A superb tribute." —
Booklist
In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos.
In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by Kahlo, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo’s life and their meaning for her work.
Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full color paintings, as well as dozens of black and white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and little-known works included in
Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
are
The Two Fridas
,
Self Portrait as a Tehuana
Without Hope
The Dream, The Little Deer
Diego and I
Henry Ford Hospital
My Birth
, and
My Nurse and I
. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life.