About the artistMexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her surreal self-portraits, expressing her pain and passion in bold, vibrant colours. Her celebration of Mexican culture was often interwoven with her depiction of the female experience.Kahlo suffered from polio as a child then as a teen she nearly died in a bus accident which damaged her spine, shattered her pelvis, dislocated her shoulder and broke her foot. While recovering she began painting, trying to digest her experience of both physical and emotional pain through her art. Self-portraits were important and she produced over 50 of them."I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best." - Frida KahloShe produced around 200 paintings, sketches and drawings in her lifetime. Her stormy relationship with her husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, was another subject of her work.About the author Cheryl Robson is an award-winning writer, editor and filmmaker who has commissioned, designed and edited many acclaimed full-colour books including PL Henderson's Unravelling Women's Art and The Arab-Israeli Cookbook by Robin Soans which won a Gourmand award for Best Foodbook and a Special Jury Prize for Peace. She has edited over 100 books including a series on James Baldwin, Jane Austen and Marilyn Monroe as well as books on Feminist Theatre, women in film and numerous biographies.

Love & Frida Kahlo feels like a beautifully curated conversation between art, history, culture, and desire. Frida remains such a towering figure in Latin American culture because of the way she turned pain, identity, love, and selfhood into an unmistakable visual language, and this anthology honors that legacy without flattening the woman behind the icon.I especially loved the decision to pair her paintings, photographs, letters, and personal reflections with poetry from acclaimed writers around the world. The result feels rich and layered—part art book, part literary anthology, part intimate portrait—and a fitting tribute to an artist whose life and work continue to inspire far beyond the canvas. *****-Abimael Perez, NetGalley Reviewer

• author bioIntroduction 7Early Life 11Alejandro Gomez Arias 13The Rise of Mexico 17Diego Rivera 18Back to Mexico 27Sister, We Are Broken by Juan Manuel Ortiz 30Has My Heart Gone To Sleep? by Antonio Machado 34Marital Break Up 36Marriage for the Second Time 40War and Conflict 44To See Him Again by Gabriela Mistral 47Bisexuality: Lovers and Friends 49Chavela Vargas 54I Would Like To Run Away by Emilio Prados 56Nickolas Muray 59Jacqueline Lamba 64I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown by Delmira Agustini 68Leon Trotsky 71Memory by Edward S. Silvera 77Julien Levy 78Isamu Noguchi 82A Farewell Song by Concha Urquizo 86Dolores del R o 88Ignacio Aguirre 92Always by Pablo Neruda 95Josephine Baker 96Rima XI by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 101Josep Bartol 102New Songs by Federico Garcia Lorca 104Georgia O'Keeffe 106The Spring Kissed by Antonio Machado 109Maria Felix 110Rima XXIV by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 114Graciela Olmos 116The Caravel by Graciela Olmos 119Frida and her Pets 123I'm Not Afraid Of You, Little Owl by Rosalia de Castro130Bibliography and References 134