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Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular

Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular

Artbook | D. A. P.

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The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo (1907–54) drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular—painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexico’s rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk-art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and her fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity.

This bilingual book, the first in-depth exploration of Kahlo’s varied and sophisticated responses to arte popular, situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico.

Written by Layla Bermeo, curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

  • Hardcover, cloth bound
  • 240 pages, with 120 illustrations
  • Bilingual (Spanish and English)
  • 10½ × 9 inches (26.6 × 22.8 cm)
  • Publication date: November 8, 2022

Product Details

  • Product Type: Exhibition Catalog, Hardcover
  • 240 pages, with 120 illustrations
  • Publication Date:
  • Shipping Dimensions: 10.5 × 9.0
    (26.7 × 22.9 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 lb (46.4 oz; 1315 g)
  • SKU010008030 | ISBN: 9780878468881

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About the Artist, Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (born July 6, 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico—died July 13, 1954, Coyoacán) was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist. In addition to her work, Kahlo was known for her tumultuous relationship with muralist Diego Rivera (married 1929, divorced 1939, remarried 1940).

About Artbook | D. A. P.

Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. is America’s premier source for books on twentieth and twenty-first century art, photography, design and aesthetic culture. Founded in 1990 in downtown New York at a time when fine and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades D.A.P. has grown into a major international distributor of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected publishers, museums and cultural institutions.

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