Título: Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954
Autor: Andrea Kettenmann
Sinopse: Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th-century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven than in the case of almost any other artist. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was eighteen, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis, and it was in her sick bed that she first started to paint. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life long, and was particularly pained by her inability to have children. Then, aged twenty-one, she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera. Kahlo's arresting pictures, most of them small-format self-portraits, express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera's occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad, her longing to feel that she had put down roots, and a profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954”, de Andrea Kettenmann, publicado pela editora Taschen America Llc, em 2016 e com 96 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Taschen America Llc
Páginas: 96
Ano: 2016
Edição:
Linguagem: alemão
ISBN: 3836512645
ISBN13: 9783836512640
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Taschen America Llc apresentam uma experiência visual intensa, marcada por obras que transitam entre a arte, a fotografia e o design, com forte apelo para o registro histórico e cultural. A leitura dessas obras costuma ser densa em imagens de alta qualidade, muitas vezes acompanhadas de textos que contextualizam movimentos artísticos, trajetórias pessoais e fenômenos sociais. O catálogo sugere uma preferência por publicações que valorizam a pesquisa visual e a documentação detalhada, seja por meio de fotografias de época, ilustrações clássicas ou coleções temáticas, com um ritmo que pode variar do contemplativo ao informativo.
