Frida by Frida

Frida Kahlo; Selection of Letters and Texts, Foreword and Notes by Raquel Tibol; Translated by Gregory Dechant

ISBN 10: 9685208468 / ISBN 13: 9789685208468

Published by Editorial RM, 2006

About this Item

399 pp., with numerous illustrations and extensive index. Size: approx. 6" x 8.5". Minor shelf and handling wear. Faintly visible erasure of previous bookseller s small penciled notation on ffep. Mild edge wear and spine-fading to dust jacket (see photos); dust jacket is now enclosed in a (removable) protective mylar cover. Gift-quality item.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1740704181271

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frida by Frida
• Publisher: Editorial RM
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9685208468
• ISBN 13: 9789685208468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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.