Frida Kahlo - Critical Lives

A critical biography of the life, work and artistic legacy of the popular artist.

About the author

Gannit Ankori is Professor of Art History and Theory at the departments of Fine Arts, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Schusterman Center at Brandeis University. She is the author of Imaging her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation (2002), Frida Kahlo: Art, Life, Diary (2003) and Palestinian Art (Reaktion, 2006). She is the interim Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.

Summary

Cutting through 'Fridamania', this book explores Frida Kahlo's life, art and legacies, while also scrutinizing the myths, contradictions and ambiguities that riddle her dramatic story.

Product details

• Authors: Gannit Ankori, Ankori Gannit
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9781780231983
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-198-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Lives; Critical Lives (Reaktion Books; Critical Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Biography: arts and entertainment, ART / Movements / Modernism