Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1894243714 ISBN 13: 9781894243711

Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2013

Synopsis

A visual feast of Kahlo and Rivera's finest works that will leave readers intellectually challenged and emotionally awakened.

He painted for the people. She painted to survive.

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Diego Rivera's (1886-1957) legendary passion for each other and for Mexico's revolutionary culture during the 1920s and 1930s made them two of the twentieth century's most famous artists. During their life together as a married couple, Rivera achieved prominence as a muralist, while Kahlo's intimate paintings were embraced by the Surrealist movement and the Mexican art world. After their deaths in the 1950s, retrospectives of Kahlo's work enshrined her as one of the most significant women artists of the twentieth century, partially eclipsing Rivera's international fame as Mexico's greatest muralist painter.

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting offers a new perspective on their artistic significance for the twenty-first 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. Frida & Diego features colour reproductions of 75 paintings and works on paper by both Kahlo and Rivera, rarely reproduced archival photographs, and new biographical information on the couple assembled by scholar Dot Tuer.

About this title

About the Author:

Dot Tuer has published widely on Canadian and Latin American art. She is Professor of Art History and Humanities at OCAD University. Elliott King is Associate Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. His research focuses on Surrealism in the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1894243714
• ISBN 13: 9781894243711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Tuer Dot, King Elliot