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Picture of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

By Hayden Herrera

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers 2002
ISBN: 0060085894
MY HERO recommends this book to readers of all age groups.

From the Publisher
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle.

Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman — with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.

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User Reviews:
| 1/24/2011 3:33 AM
wooow i an a very big fan of Frida's art.... she realy is an artist!
Jaggiello Bentley | 6/28/2010 8:06 AM
What an amazing woman and an inspiration to the physicslly and/or mentally challenged.No Fear, No Limits, No Shame.
Kaylie Washington | 3/13/2009 12:08 AM
his book is so cool i wish i had this story for my own it is fun to read books like this1!!
saba | 3/14/2008 10:28 AM
how is she the revolutionary artist


Frida Kahlo claimed to have been born in 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Both she and her paintings were intertwined with the political chaos and rebirth of her beloved Mexico.  She was an unconventional woman whose paintings were, in her words, "the frankest expression of herself." (http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/life/index.html)

-- The MY HERO Library Staff

[email protected] | 11/26/2007 2:01 PM
I would love to know the name of the self portrait at the beginning of the biography on this site. It does not seem to be available in print or poster form as most others are. Of course it is my favorite. Do you have any info on this, or can you tell me where I can get a copy?


Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Monkey appeared on the cover of the first edition of Hayden Herrera's book and was replaced with the current photograph of actress Salma Hayek.


The image at the beginning of the MY HERO Web page story written by Jennifer Beck


http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=f_kahlo


is actually a photograph.


Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray

George Eastman House

Still Photograph Archive

http://www.fridakahlo.it/

-- The MY HERO Library Staff

Wenndie | 8/31/2007 4:01 AM
The book is facinating and has an extreme amount of intresting facts
Carolina | 10/29/2006 10:25 PM
pretty cool!
Savanna Fluter | 7/14/2005 12:15 PM
Being a strong woman is what i like.

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