Beauty is convulsive
Subtitle: the passion of Frida Kahlo
By: Carole Maso.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Kahlo, Frida -- Poetry.; Women painters -- Poetry.; Women with disabilities -- Poetry.; Traffic accident victims -- Poetry.; Women communists -- Poetry.; Beauty, Personal -- Poetry.; Mexico -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "A vibrant series of prose poems, Beauty Is Convulsive is a passionate meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced through by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits.

In 1928, at twenty-one, she joined the Communist Party and came to know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, already Mexico's most famous painter, was impressed by the force of Kahlo's personality and by the authenticity of her art. The two soon married. Though they were devoted to each other, intermittent affairs on both sides, Frida's grief over her inability to bear a child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous."--BOOK JACKET.