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    Frida Kahlo : making her self up / edited by Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa.

    • Title:Frida Kahlo : making her self up / edited by Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa.
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    • Variant Title:Frida Kahlo, making herself up
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Wilcox, Claire, editor.
      Henestrosa, Circe, editor.
      Kahlo, Frida, artist.
      Victoria and Albert Museum, host institution.
    • Published/Created:London : V&A Publishing, [2018]
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Kahlo, Frida--Exhibitions.
      Kahlo, Frida--Criticism and interpretation.
      Kahlo, Frida--Clothing.
      Painters--Mexico--Biography.
      Women artists--Mexico--Biography.
    • Genre/Form:Exhibition catalogs.
    • Description:208 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 28 cm
    • Summary:Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up gives readers a unique window into Kahlo's life. It will focus on the personal, combining her prosthetics, jewelry, and clothes with self-portraits, diary entries, and letters to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions, setting this in the context of her political and social beliefs.
    • Notes:"First published by V&A Publishing to accompany the exhibition Frida Kahlo: making her self up on view from 16 June until 4 November 2018 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London."
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781851779604
      1851779604
    • Contents:I. Family and childhood
      Querzalcoatl's Grin: the changing face of art and culture in Frida Kahlo's Mexico / Adrian Locke
      II. Adolescence and adulthood
      Appearances can be deceiving-Frida Kahlo's construction of identity: disability, ethnicity and dress / Circe Henestrosa
      Frida Kahlo's jewellery / Clare Phillips
      III. Jewellery
      Frida Kahlo's wardrobe / Chloë Sayer
      Frida Kahlo: making her self up / Claire Wilcox
      IV. Cosmetics
      Frida Kahlo: posing, composing, exposing / Gannit Ankori
      V. Orthopaedic devices
      The Resplandor: cultural and spiritual significance in two self-portraits / Kirstin Kennedy
      Frida redressed / Oriana Baddeley
      VI. Medicines.
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