The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

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The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the illustrated journal she kept all through her last 10 years. This passionate and at times surprising record contains the artist’s thoughts, poems, and dreams; many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, at the side of 70 mesmerising watercolour illustrations. The text entries in brightly coloured inks make the journal as captivating to take a look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist’s political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than thirty-five operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of eighteen.
Frida Kahlo, one of the crucial dynamic figures of 20th-century art, has very nearly turn into a saint, so legendary is her tumultuous and tragic life. Whilst there’s no dearth of books about Kahlo and her work, none are as poignantly revealing as this diary, which includes her own words and pictures. We find the genesis of a few of her most famous paintings, her love letters, and sketches of people she knew such as her husband, the Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera, and a lot of studies for self-portraits. The most fascinating a part of the book is the facsimile diary, in its exact size, reproduced here for the first time, with color illustrations. It is accompanied by an English translation with explanatory commentaries.

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