Discoveries: Frida Kahlo, Painting Her Own Reality (Discoveries (Harry Abrams))
By Christina Burrus.
Description
"My painting carries within it the message of pain". Frida Kahloborn in 1907 near Mexico Citylearned about pain at a very early age. She contracted polio at six, and then at eighteen suffered serious and permanent injury to her right leg and pelvis in a terrible bus accident. Young and undaunted, she went on to fall in love with the great mural painter Diego Rivera at a time when their native Mexico was going through a period of thrilling political and cultural upheaval. Rivera and Kahlo were a legendary coupleboth were impassioned, lifelong communists while fervently attached ...
ISBN(s)
0810984024, 9780810984028
