A unique perspective on the fate of the legendary artist—through the events of her life reflected in her paintings.
The author of the book, Alba Romano Pacе, an Italian art historian and curator of exhibitions on Surrealism in the world’s largest museums, has dedicated a new edition to Frida Kahlo. As a recognized specialist, she builds a narrative of the artist’s biography by setting key turning points in her life against the paintings they produced.
Fans of Frida Kahlo will learn not only about her difficult relationships with Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky, but also about other dramatic and gripping episodes. Why, after the automobile accident, was Frida called a “ballerina”? What earned her the insult “cockroach” that she gave to André Breton? What feelings did bohemian Paris and businesslike New York evoke in her?
Readers will find answers to these and many other questions in this new biography of Frida Kahlo—a woman who became a symbol of self-affirmation, inner freedom, and creative independence.