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3) Frida Kahlo
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and today is one of the world's favourite artists. As a child, she was badly affected by polio, and later suffered a terrible accident that left her disabled and in pain. Shortly after this accident, Kahlo took up painting, and through her surreal, symbolic self portraits described the pain she suffered, as well as the treatment of women, and her sadness at not being able to have a child. This book tells the story...
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Frida Kahlo's (1907-1954) arresting pictures were in many ways expressions of trauma. This richly illustrated Basic Art book offers a both accessible and informed introduction to Kahlo's life and work, looking at the artist's dramatic, colourful canvases which combined religious Mexican tradition with Surrealist elements.
9) Viva Frida
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English
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Via spare text, examines Kahlo's creative process.
Bilingual text, accompanied by colorful photographs, explores the famous artist's life, and illuminates the laughter, love, and tragedy that influenced her work.
11) Frida Kahlo
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32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Discusses the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, including her childhood, her art, and her marriage to Diego Rivera.
12) Frida Kahlo
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color charts ; 26 cm.
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English
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You may already know that Frida Kahlo was an artist, but did you know she lived in a bright blue house? Or that she owned two pet spider monkeys? A graphic retelling of Kahlo's story which gives children a colorful snapshot of her life and the world in which she grew up, whilst educating them on everything from the Mexican revolution to the importance of self-belief.
Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor,...
13) Frida
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm.
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Español
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Habla de la niñez de Frida Kahlo y la influencia que tenía sobre su arte.
Discusses the childhood of Frida Kahlo and how it influenced her art.
15) Diego Rivera
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207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Like his contemporary Pablo Picasso, the Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was a man of enormous energy, astonishing versatility, and voracious appetites. Rivera made his mark as one of the greatest muralists of the twentieth century. His dramatic public life involved him in the deepest contradictions of art and politics. He embraced European modernism in the form of Cubism, only to abandon it in favor of an attempt to express the Mexican character...
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230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Frida Kahlo is probably the most idolized artist of her time. At the root of the scholarly speculation and pop-culture paraphernalia lies Frida Kahlo: An Open Life, first published in Mexico in 1983. This irreplaceable, eclectic collection reveals the complexities, profound sadness, an immutable creative spirit of the famed Mexican artist.
18) Frida Kahlo
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110 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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A biography of the Mexican painter who survived a near-fatal bus accident at the age of eighteen, learned to paint as a form of therapy, had a stormy marriage with Diego Rivera, and became a world-famous artist.
20) Diego
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Discusses the childhood of Diego Rivera and how it influenced his art.
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