Books
Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting
This book offers a new perspective on the artistic significance of Kahlo and Rivera for the 21st century, one that shows how their paintings reflect both the dramatic story of their lives together and their artistic commitment to the transformative political and cultural values of post-revolutionary Mexico.
Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico
Examines the works of women in literature and the arts, with focus on individuals who represent crucial phases in Mexico's cultural history including Frida Kahlo and postrevolutionary nationalism.
Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950
In the wake of the 1910-20 Revolution, Mexico emerged as a centre of modern art. This book offers a comprehensive look at the period that brought Mexico onto the world stage during a period of political upheaval and dramatic social change.
Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art
Brings together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900. As the title suggests, many of the texts have a polemical or argumentative cast. In these documents, many of which appear in English for the first time, the artists themselves describe what they hope to accomplish and what they see as obstacles.
Communism in Mexico
Traces efforts during the early 20th century to create a Soviet-style society in one of the largest and most strategically situated of the Latin American countries. Schmitt writes authoritatively of the Mexican Communist movement, tracing its development from an early and potentially powerful political-economic base to the increasingly fragmented and weakened collection of parties and front groups of the 1960s.
Articles from Library Databases
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Websites
- Frida Kahlo’s Forgotten PoliticsMuseum exhibitions of Frida Kahlo’s work tend to focus on her personal style and persona. But Kahlo was intensely political, as were her paintings.
- How Frida Kahlo Fused Her Mexicanness with SocialismHistorian Alejandro Rosas on how the artist's work was influenced by the Mexican revolution
- Art and the Mexican RevolutionThis is a free online course offered by The Open University in the UK.
- How Frida Kahlo’s Love Affair with a Communist Revolutionary Impacted Her ArtA discussion of Frida Kahlo’s relationship with Leon Trotsky and her involvement in the Mexican Communist Party
- Writing the Nation: Frida Kahlo and Rosario CastellanosThrough art and its language of self-representation of women, also the other, these two women
artists substantially contribute to the “writing of a nation.” - Frida Kahlo and Mexican Tradition IdentityFrida Kahlo’s art inquires into the contemporary political and cultural stress of her Mexico.