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Frida Kahlo : making her self up / edited by Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : V&A Publishing, [2018]Description: 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781851779604
  • 1851779604
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
I.FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD -- Querzalcoatl's Grin: The Changing Face of Art and Culture in Frida Kahlo's Mexico / Adrian Locke -- II.ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD -- Appearances Can Be Deceiving -- Frida Kahlo's Construction of Identity: Disability, Ethnicity and Dress / Circe Henestrosa -- Frida Kahlo's Jewellery / Clare Phillips -- III.JEWELLERY -- Frida Kahlo's Wardrobe / Chloë Sayer -- Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up / Claire Wilcox -- IV.COSMETICS -- Frida Kahlo: Posing, Composing, Exposing / Gannit Ankori -- V.ORTHOPAEDIC DEVICES -- The Resplandor: Cultural and Spiritual Significance in Two Self -- Portraits / Kirstin Kennedy -- Frida Redressed / Oriana Baddeley -- VI.MEDICINES.
Summary: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), 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 Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), 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 Kahlo: Making Her Self Up gives readers a unique window into Kahlo's 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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 759.972 F898 Available 33111009227782
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa's Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up presents a unique window into the artist's life.



Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), 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 Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), 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 Kahlo: Making Her Self Up focuses 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.





This book accompany the exhibition Frida Kahlo: making her self up on view from 16 June until 4 November 2018 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), 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 Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), 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 Kahlo: Making Her Self Up gives readers a unique window into Kahlo's 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.

I.FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD -- Querzalcoatl's Grin: The Changing Face of Art and Culture in Frida Kahlo's Mexico / Adrian Locke -- II.ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD -- Appearances Can Be Deceiving -- Frida Kahlo's Construction of Identity: Disability, Ethnicity and Dress / Circe Henestrosa -- Frida Kahlo's Jewellery / Clare Phillips -- III.JEWELLERY -- Frida Kahlo's Wardrobe / Chloë Sayer -- Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up / Claire Wilcox -- IV.COSMETICS -- Frida Kahlo: Posing, Composing, Exposing / Gannit Ankori -- V.ORTHOPAEDIC DEVICES -- The Resplandor: Cultural and Spiritual Significance in Two Self -- Portraits / Kirstin Kennedy -- Frida Redressed / Oriana Baddeley -- VI.MEDICINES.

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