num_pages: 256
description: Frida Kahlo (19071954) as an artist and a woman has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlos death her husband Diego Rivera (18861957) ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive Frida Kahlos Wardrobe gives readers a unique window into Kahlos life. It will focus on the personal combining her prosthetics jewelry and clothes with self-portraits diary entries and letters to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions setting this in the context of her political and social beliefs.
language: English
title: Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
publisher: V & A Publishing