Frida Kahlo – författare

Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago.But beyond the familiar images there is a private story about a daughter who confided in her beloved mama, Matilde Calderon Kahlo. Until now Frida's handwritten letters have only been available to scholars - and recently in Spanish in a book that appeared in 2016. Now for the first time we have over fifty of these letters in English.And what a treasure. Funny, observant and honest, they chart Kahlo's relationship with her mother; a relationship that was sometimes fraught - as with most mother and daughters - but was always alive and honest. They begin in 1923 when Kahlo was sixteen and continue until the death of her mother in 1932. These letters tell us about Kahlo's anxieties, her feelings about her husband and friends and above all reveal the marvellous, critical painter's eye in her description of people and places from Mexico, San Francisco and New York. Edited, translated and introduced by Dr. Héctor Jaimes, Professor of Spanish, North Carolina State University (who edited the Spanish version) this book is published with paintings and photographs.

Compelling works by one of the 20th century's most provocative artists: The Broken Column, The Dead Dimas Rosas at the Age of Three, Self-Portrait with Monkey, 13 others.

A collection of compelling quotations from iconic painter Frida KahloFrida Kahlo (1907–1954) has achieved a legendary status in the visual world. A master of the self-portrait, she celebrated Mexican culture and heritage in her work while also intimately and poignantly exploring identity, gender, sexuality, disability, race, and the body. Drawn from Kahlo’s diaries, letters, interviews, and other sources, Kahlo-isms is a powerful, revealing, and memorable collection of quotations from throughout her life. Fierce, individual, and introspective, Kahlo’s words offer a vivid, immediate window into the life, mind, and spirit of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.“I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim.”“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”

'I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.'For many she represents triumph over suffering, but to Frida Kahlo, life, body and art were entirely intertwined.Kahlo – friend, lover, teacher, patient, survivor, revolutionary – endured polio and scoliosis as a child, and then, at the age of 18, survived a catastrophic bus accident. Over the next 19 years she was to undergo over thirty surgeries. Yet her work, her magical, jewel-coloured paintings, her heartfelt, visceral art, continued to flow.Using new translations from her diary, letters and interviews, Wings to Fly juxtaposes Kahlo’s paintings with her writings, and illuminates links between the personal and universal, the physical and imaginative, the pain and resolve – to truly inspire.'Feet what do I need them for, if I have wings to fly?'

Frida Kahlo: Att trotsa smärtan i översättning av Martin Uggla och med efterord av Åsa Moberg. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) är idag Mexikos mest berömda konstnär. Bakhålls bok innehåller ett urval (gjort av Frida Kahlokännaren Martha Zamora, i original heter boken Cartas Apasionadas) av Frida Kahlos högintressanta brev till de närmaste vännerna, till hennes första stora kärlek Alex, till långvariga väninnan Ella, till älskaren Nick, till maken Diego och andra som stod henne nära. Här för första gången på svenska.