Item Number: 130012 Title: FRIDA KAHLO Author: Prignitz-Poda, Helga (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 978883709957 Description: Milano: Electa, 2014. 30cm., pbk., 394pp., 230 illus. Exhibition held at Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma. Italian text. Summary: A revolutionary spirit that lead to a new evaluation of the natives' past and their folkloric traditions deeply permeate every picture. Both past and traditions are intended as unextinguishable identity codes in which self-expression, language, imagination, colours and symbols of Mexican popular culture merge. Unusual art works that have never been presented in Italy are skilfully exhibited along with a wide selection of paintings, authors and movements contemporary to Frida's time. Her innovative art meets the artistic background and is now set in an international frame: Metaphysical art, Dadaism, New Objectivity and Surrealism, of course. On this particular occasion foreign experts, and in particular Salomon Grimberg, have written essays which so originally take on subjects of great interest. Finally leaving behind the novel stereotype of a relentless life, the volume also includes photographic pictures of the artist, especially the ones by Nickolas Muray in the forties, which reveal the iconography of an extraordinary exponent of political, social and cultural changes of the twentieth century. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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