{"product_id":"frida-kahlo-the-paintings-9780060923198","title":"Frida Kahlo: The Paintings","description":"\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.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\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 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerrera, Hayden:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Hayden Herrera is an art historian. She has lectured widely, curated several exhibitions of art, taught Latin American art at New York University, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews for such publications as \u003cem\u003eArt in America, Art Forum, Connoisseur, \u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/em\u003e among others. Her books include \u003cem\u003eFrida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo; Mary Frank;\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMatisse: A Portrait.\u003c\/em\u003e She is working on a critical biography of Arshile Gorky. She lives in New York City.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631052919058,"sku":"9780060923198","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d22ad0e-8793-4b78-9bd7-93759691e914.jpg?v=1732765205","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/frida-kahlo-the-paintings-9780060923198","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}