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Frida Kahlo / by Judah, Hettie,author.; Kahlo, Frida.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world. Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brilliant, foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking, hard-smoking, husband-stealing, occasionally bisexual, often bed-bound, wheelchair-using, needy, forthright and passionate woman. Hettie Judah sets out to correct that with this superb biography of one of the most charismatic artists of the last hundred years. Follow Frida's life through tumultuous love and life-altering accidents, towards recognition in the art world from the likes of Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to becoming the first Mexican artist held at the Louvre. Judah delves into Kahlo's experiences and how these came together to inspire the art that has been described as an uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. From an early battle with Polio, to a debilitating bus accident at 18, through love and heart ache, the life of Frida Kahlo was one of pain but a pain that bore great beauty.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Kahlo, Frida.; Painters; Women artists; Women painters;
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Frida Kahlo [graphic novel] : her life, her work, her home / by Mora, Francisco de la,author,artist.; Schimel, Lawrence,translator.; translation of:Mora, Francisco de la.Frida Kahlo.English.;
Includes bibliographical references.In graphic novel format looks at the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Kahlo, Frida; Painters;
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Queer heroes / by Sicardi, Arabelle.; Tanat-Jones, Sarah.;
Profiles notable LGBTQ figures and highlights, their contributions to society and their community, including Martina Navratilova, Frida Kahlo, Alan Turing, David Bowie, and K.D. Lang.LSC
Subjects: Sexual minorities; Lesbians; Gay men; Gays; Bisexuals;
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13 women artists children should know / by Schümann, Bettina.; Michael, Jane.;
Sofonisba Anguissola -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Mary Cassatt -- Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Lyubov Popova -- Tamara de Lempicka -- Frida Kahlo -- Louise Bourgeois -- Meret Oppenheim -- Niki de Saint Phalle -- Bridget Riley -- Cindy Sherman -- Glossary."This book introduces you to thirteen great women artists. You'll learn about the dreams they followed throughout their lives and discover how they were able to fulfill them. You'll find out where and when they lived, and what they managed to achieve with their art.
Subjects: Art; Women artists; Women in art;
© c2009., Prestel,
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Reina Ramos works it out / by Otheguy, Emma.; Landazábal, Andrés.;
Reina Ramos is excited about dressing up as Frida Kahlo for the class wax museum. Frida was a strong person like her mami and abuela-plus Reina has the perfect headband for the costume! But when her best friend Nora picks Frida first, Reina doesn't know what to do. Who will she dress up as now?Ages 4-8.Guided reading level K.LSC
Subjects: Emotions; Friendship;
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50 artists you should know / by Koster, Thomas.; Röper, Lars.;
Giotto di Bondone -- Jan van Eyck -- Sandro Botticelli -- Hieronymous Bosch -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Albrecht Dürer -- Lucas Cranach the Elder -- Michelangelo -- Titian -- Raphael -- Hans Holbein the Younger -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Caravaggio -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Diego Velázquez -- Rembrandt -- Jan Vermeer -- Jean-Antoine Watteau -- William Hogarth -- Thomas Gainsborough -- Francisco de Goya -- Jacques-Louis David -- Caspar David Friedrich -- William Turner -- Gustave Courbet -- Édouard Manet -- Paul Cézanne -- Claude Monet -- Vincent van Gogh -- Georges Seurat -- Gustav Klimt -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Henri Matisse -- Paul Klee -- Pablo Picasso -- Edward Hopper -- Max Beckmann -- Marc Chagall -- Marcel Duchamp -- Max Ernst -- Joan Miró -- Alexander Calder -- Henry Moore -- Salvador Dalí -- Frida Kahlo -- Jackson Pollock -- Joseph Beuys -- Andy Warhol -- David Hockney.
Subjects: Art.; Artists.;
© 2006., Prestel,
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The Bohemians : a novel / by Darznik, Jasmin,1973-author.;
"A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers--exploring Dorothea Lange's wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. In 1918 Dorothea leaves the East Coast for California, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking woman with a complicated past, gives her entrée into Monkey Block, an artists' colony and the bohemian heart of San Francisco. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art, and politics. She also finds herself unexpectedly--and unwisely--falling in love with Maynard Dixon, a brilliant but troubled painter. Dorothea and Caroline eventually create a flourishing portrait studio only to have a devastating betrayal push their friendship to the breaking point and alter the course of their lives. Rich with descriptions of San Francisco in the glittering and gritty 1920s, and with cameos from such legendary figures as Mabel Dodge, Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams, and DH Lawrence, The Bohemians explores the gift of friendship, the possibility of self-invention, and the ferocious pull of history"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Lange, Dorothea; Women photographers;
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The stone world : a novel / by Agee, Joel,author.;
"The son of acclaimed writer James Agee delivers a beautiful and haunting recreation of his childhood, when his mother fled America for Mexico, and raised him amid a circle including expat European communists, local labor activists, and even Frida Kahlo ... Joel Agee's hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo. But the emigrés long for home - including Peter's step-father, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peter's parents and their tight group of friends. And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down - that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Arón; his father's friend Sándor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the family's live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer. Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood - yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil - Joel Agee's The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agee's A Death in the Family"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Families; Refugees; Refugees;
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