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Frida Kahlo: Health

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Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish

Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish

Kahlo's paintings accompany historical photographs and descriptive text, chronicling the significant episodes in Kahlo's life, from childhood to her untimely death: the consequences and aftermath of a tragic bus accident in her adolescence; her tempestuous marriage; her travels abroad; her political convictions and her relationships with the great leaders and artistic personalities of her time.

Frida Kahlo: An Open Life

Frida Kahlo: An Open Life

The author met and interviewed Frida Kahlo a year before Kahlo's death. She lived with Kahlo for a while in Coyoacón in Mexico City and then for a time at Rivera's San Angel Inn home. Frida Kahlo: An Open Life uses medical records, journals, letters, interviews, and personal recollections to bring us closer than ever to the Mexican artist and her milieu

Frida Kahlo: The Paintings

Frida Kahlo: The Paintings

Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their meaning for her work.

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