{"product_id":"9780060923198","title":"Frida Kahlo: The Paintings","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFrida Kahlo: The Paintings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Hayden Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo’s life and their meaning for her work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded 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 \u003cem\u003eFrida Kahlo: The Paintings\u003c\/em\u003e are \u003cem\u003eThe Two Fridas\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Self Portrait as a Tehuana\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Without Hope\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e The Dream, The Little Deer\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Diego and I\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Henry Ford Hospital\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e My Birth\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMy Nurse and I\u003c\/em\u003e. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Hayden Herrera’s name has become inextricably linked with that of Frida Kahlo...[This book is] a useful popular introduction to one of the most singular artists of the twentieth century.”\u003cbr\u003e“[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.”\u003cbr\u003e\"Engaging and well illustrated.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the most direct analysis of Frida Kahlo's life and art within one volume to date.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060923198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41019378925774,"sku":"9780060923198","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060923198.jpg?v=1652119533","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060923198","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}