Frida Kahlo : making her self up

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

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 posses...

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Corporate Author: V&A Publishing
Other Authors: Wilcox, Claire (Editor), Henestrosa, Circe (Editor), Kahlo, Frida
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : V & A Publishing, [2018]
Subjects:
Kahlo, Frida > Exhibitions.
Kahlo, Frida > Criticism and interpretation.
Kahlo, Frida > Clothing.
Painters > Mexico > Biography.
Women artists > Mexico > Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Biography.
Table of 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.

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