| Title | : | Frida Kahlo: Studies in World Art, Book 29 (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| Release | : | 2017-12-14 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | History |
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| 1 | Frida Kahlo: Studies in World Art, Book | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| Going to the Frida Kahlo exhibition current at Tate Modern in London is like entering the shrine of a secular saint. The rooms are thronged. People peer closely at the paintings, many of them very small. They seem afraid to talk much above a whisper. There are a number of reasons for this reaction. One is Hayden Herrera’s highly readable biography of the artist, first published in 1983, and now established as a classic feminist text. Another is the feminist movement’s general need for heroines, which has had a similar effect on the posthumous reputation of Georgia O’Keeffe. A third, probably the most powerful, reason is Kahlo’s own personality, which combined self-assertion, defiance and masochism in almost equal proportions. In this respect Kahlo can be compared with a slightly later generation of English-language poets, male and female. Prominent among them are Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. |
