num_pages: 528
description: This beautifully-illustrated and engrossing biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality and an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences. Born and brought up near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, she suffered a devastating accident aged eighteen, which left her crippled and unable to bear children. Her marriage to the muralist Diego Riviera was tempestuous, and she had many love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky. Absorbed in Mexican folklore and culture and a lover of dramatic spectacle, Kahlo's tumultuous life is that of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman.
language: English
title: Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo
titlecomplete: Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo
characters: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
genres: Historical, History, Feminism, Womens, Biography, Memoir, Art History, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 64193
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC