num_pages: 528
description: Hailed 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.
language: English
title: Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
titlecomplete: Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
characters: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
genres: Art, Historical, Biography, Womens, Art History, Feminism, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 64181
publisher: Harper Perennial