Beauty is convulsive
the passion of Frida Kahlo
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Author
Publication
2002 - Counterpoint, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
42,500 words, Guess
Page Count
170 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3554101M
- ISBN-101582430896
- OCLC Control Number49822847
- OCLC Control Numberbeautyisconvulsi0000maso
- Library of Congress Control Number2002007470
and 2 more
- LibraryThing949204
- Goodreads153601
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3563.A786 B43 2002
Description
"A vibrant series of prose poems, Beauty Is Convulsive is a passionate meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced through by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. In 1928, at twenty-one, she joined the Communist Party and came to know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, already Mexico's most famous painter, was impressed by the force of Kahlo's personality and by the authenticity of her art. The two soon married. Though they were devoted to each other, intermittent affairs on both sides, Frida's grief over her inability to bear a child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous."--BOOK JACKET.
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