»San Francisco is very beautiful … For the first time I got to see the ocean and I loved it!« Frida Kahlo, 1930
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Frida Kahlo and San Francisco
Constructing Her Identity
This book marks the triumphant return of Frida Kahlo to San Francisco, the city where her artistic life began to unfold. Kahlo’s sojourns to the United States were brief, but formative. It was in the California city – the first she visited in the US – that she ventured into a new world beyond the scope of Coyoacán, Mexico City, and Cuernavaca.
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Kahlo first visited San Francisco in 1930 with her husband Diego Rivera and stayed for a year. It was love at first sight. She appreciated the beauty of the city and relished its ethnic diversity. Kahlo began to fashion her indigenous (and now iconic) Mexican identity. She refined her sartorial flair, enhanced her political and social worldview, and began to paint seriously. The splendid catalogue includes essays exploring Kahlo’s role as an artist and her time in San Francisco, as well as a selection of artworks by the artist and photographs of her.
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Nicht nur eine Augenweide aus künstlerischer Sicht, sondern auch ein hervorragendes Zeitdokument, das dem Betrachter die wohl bedeutendste amerikanische Künstlerin nahebringt. Es lohnt sich, für dieses Buch viel Zeit einzuplanen.
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Contributions by G. Ankori, C. Henestrosa, H. C. Olcott
96 pages, 70 colour illustrations20.3 × 25.4 cm, softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3573-2
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Photography
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Art 20th Century
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Art and Cultural History
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Artist monographs
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Painting
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Painting 20th Century
Keywords
20th century, surrealism, 30s, mexico, painting
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