Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Kahlo, Frida, artist.
Rejes Mejía, Laura Susana, translator.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.
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| ISBN: | 9780878468881
0878468889
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| Notes: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 27-June 19, 2019.
The text is presented twice: pages 13-125 are in English, followed by pages 128-201 which are in Spanish. Full-size images appear with the English text, with small-size images in the Spanish text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Layla Bermeo is Kristin and Roger Servison Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text in English with translation in Spanish.
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| Summary: | "The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular--painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexico's rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché, and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity. This bilingual book, the first in-depth exploration of Kahlo's varied and sophisticated responses to arte popular, situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions, and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico"--
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