Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo [Paperback] Herrera | Hayden

Through her art | Herrera writes | Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography | Kahlo has also | finally | been made fully human. — San Francisco ChronicleHailed 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.