![]() ![]() ![]() Among the famous and little-known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full color paintings, as well as dozens of black and white pictures and line illustrations. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their meaning for her work. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. Looking for books by Hayden Herrera See all books authored by Hayden Herrera, including Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, and Frida Kahlo: The Paintings. Summary: In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. ![]()
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