Frida by Frida, 2nd Expanded Edition

Frida Kahlo and Raquel Tibol

ISBN 10: 9685208468 / ISBN 13: 9789685208468

Published by Editorial RM, 2007

About this Item

Original hardcover in jacket, 1st printing of this 2nd edition - b + w woodcut by Kahlo opposite the title page, section of historical b + w photographs of Kahlo at middle of book. 398 pages, index, book is an exceptional reference for Kahlo's personal life. Book is very solid and bright. There is bumping to the upper corners boards, covers. Mild reading wear otherwise. Very nice.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1745706809254

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frida by Frida, 2nd Expanded Edition
• Publisher: Editorial RM
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9685208468
• ISBN 13: 9789685208468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Frida Kahlo, the writer? In this new expanded edition of the painter's writings, art critic Raquel Tibol gathers letters, poems, notes, protests, confessions, brief messages and longer texts written by Kahlo to her friends, her lovers and others. In her writings, Kahlo employs, in Tibol's words, an "unreserved, imaginative language, heart and intimacy laid bare," that reveals her taste for neologisms, colloquial turns and the crossing of linguistic boundaries. The freedom of her language is a path towards sincerity, the origin of Kahlo's pictorial universe, with its recurring motifs: the tramway accident that left the artist physically maimed at the age of 18; her anguished and demanding adolescent passion for Alejandro Gómez Arias; her complex and fascinating relationship with Diego Rivera; her illness as destiny; her political engagements; and her uncompromising quest for liberty. Here the reader will find Kahlo "swinging back and forth between sincerity and manipulation, self-complacency and self-flagellation, with her insatiable need for affection, her erotic upheavals, her touches of humor, setting no limits for herself, with a capacity for self-analysis and a deep humility." By gathering this material, until now scattered in archives and various published sources, Tibol offers us "a tacit autobiography and the placement of Frida within the intimate, confessional literature of the twentieth century in Mexico." This is a Frida Kahlo far removed from the distorted image so often found in films, plays and supposedly serious writings and studies--a beautiful book about Frida, by Frida.