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The Frida Kahlo traveling exhibit from Teacher’s Discovery is a collection of banners that highlight the artist and the works “Self-Portrait with Loose Hair and Self-Portrait with Monkeys, both set on a backdrop of her beloved Casa Azul. Other panels include The Bus, Frida and Diego Rivera, Self-Portrait as Tehuana, and The Frame.” The exhibit will be on display March 18-28 2025, Ozuna Library-2nd floor. This exhibit was made possible through the generosity of the Teacher’s Discovery.
Frida Kahlo by
Behind Frida Kahlo's portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida's work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico's gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he was an obsessive womanizer, the great painter Diego Rivera was by her side. She won him over with her charm, talent and intelligence, and Kahlo learnt to lean on the success of her companion in order to explore the world, thus creating her own legacy whilst finding herself surrounded by a close-knit group of friends. Her personal life was turbulent, as she frequently left her relationship with Diego to one side whilst she cultivated her own bisexual relationships. Despite this, Frida and Diego managed to save their frayed relationship. The story and the paintings that Frida left us display a courageous account of a woman constantly on a search of self discovery.
Frida Kahlo by
One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is renowned for both her paintings and her personal story, which were equally filled with pain and anguish, celebration and life. Thousands of words, including her own, have been written about Kahlo, but only one previous biography has recorded her fascinating, difficult life. Frida Kahlo by María Hesse offers a highly unique way of getting to know the artist by presenting her life in graphic novel form, with striking illustrations that reimagine many of Kahlo's famous paintings. Originally published in Spanish in 2016, Frida Kahlo has already found an enthusiastic audience in the Spanish-speaking world, with some 20,000 copies sold in just a few months. This translation introduces English-language readers to Kahlo's life, from her childhood and the traumatic accident that would change her life and her artwork, to her complicated love for Diego Rivera and the fierce determination that drove her to become a major artist in her own right. María Hesse tells the story in a first-person narrative, which captures both the depths of Frida's suffering and her passion for art and life.
Frida Kahlo by
Uses medical records, journals, letters, interviews, and personal recollections to bring us closer than ever to the Mexican artist and her milieu.
Frida Kahlo by
Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera's exotic young wife who "dabbles in art," she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband's shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo's fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through "Fridamania," this book explores Kahlo's life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the myths, contradictions, and ambiguities that riddle her dramatic story. Gannit Ankori examines Kahlo's early childhood, medical problems, volatile marriage, political affiliations, religious beliefs, and, most important, her unparalleled and innovative art. Based on detailed analyses of the artist's paintings, diary, letters, photographs, medical records, and interviews, the book also assesses Kahlo's critical impact on contemporary art and culture. Kahlo was of her time, deeply immersed in the issues that dominated the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, as this book reveals, she was also ahead of her time. Her paintings challenged social norms and broke taboos, addressing themes such as the female body, gender, cross-dressing, hybridity, identity, and trauma in ways that continue to inspire contemporary artists across the globe. Frida Kahlo is a succinct and powerful account of the life, art and legacy of this iconic artist.
O'Gorman, Kahlo, Rivera: Encuentro para una arquitectura revolucionaria by
En el verano de 1932 Juan O'Gorman, un jovencísimo arquitecto que aún no se ha titulado, termina en México DF la construcción de las casas estudio que ha proyectado para Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Tras una empalizada de cactus dos cubos casi perfectos -pintado uno de azul intenso, de rojo y blanco el otro- se elevan sobre delgadas columnas de hormigón desnudo ante la mirada atónita de todo el mundo. Las casas tienen un aspecto extraño, no se parecen a ninguna obra que se haya hecho antes en México. Su construcción es de una extrema racionalidad y eficiencia pero al mismo tiempo su estructura, sus volúmenes y huecos se acompasan con una plasticidad inusual y generan una atmósfera marcadamente onírica. Constituyen una auténtica obra maestra de arquitectura, un extraño fruto que surge de forma inesperada de la mano de un desconocido. Sin embargo detrás de esta obra hay toda una historia que se remonta bastantes años atrás, una historia que traba íntimamente la arquitectura con la pintura a través del compromiso político. En ella participan un sinfín de personajes relevantes -Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, José Antonio Cuevas, Guillermo Zárraga, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Maiakovsky, Moisei Ginzburg, Sergei Eisenstein, Alfred Barr, Lev Trotsky, Henry Ford, Albert Kahn...- en un entramado que enlaza México DF con ciudades tan distantes como París, Moscú y Detroit. Esa historia, el largo preludio de una arquitectura extraordinaria, es lo que cuenta el presente libro.
Devouring Frida by
The first full-length feminist analysis of Frida Kahlo & the myths surrounding her.
María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo by
María Izquierdo (1902-1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition. During the height of the Mexican muralist movement, they established successful careers as easel painters and created work that has become an integral part of Mexican modernism. Although the iconic Kahlo is now more famous, the two artists had comparable reputations during their lives. Both were regularly included in major exhibitions of Mexican art, and they were invariably the only women chosen for the most important professional activities and honors. In a deeply informed study that prioritizes critical analysis over biographical interpretation, Nancy Deffebach places Kahlo's and Izquierdo's oeuvres in their cultural context, examining the ways in which the artists participated in the national and artistic discourses of postrevolutionary Mexico. Through iconographic analysis of paintings and themes within each artist's oeuvre, Deffebach discusses how the artists engaged intellectually with the issues and ideas of their era, especially Mexican national identity and the role of women in society. In a time when Mexican artistic and national discourses associated the nation with masculinity, Izquierdo and Kahlo created images of women that deconstructed gender roles, critiqued the status quo, and presented more empowering alternatives for women. Deffebach demonstrates that, paradoxically, Kahlo and Izquierdo became the most successful Mexican women artists of the modernist period while most directly challenging the prevailing ideas about gender and what constitutes important art.
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Join us for Palo Alto College's 2025 Women's History Month book discussion, open to students, employees, and the community. The book discussed is Red Car Stories by Sallie Bingham. Current PAC students and employees can access the eBook at the book link or QR code below. Register here to participate in the book discussion. |
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