{"product_id":"9783836500852","title":"Kahlo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePain and passion: The original and intimate art of Mexico’s most famous female painter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arresting pictures of \u003cb\u003eFrida Kahlo\u003c\/b\u003e (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she \u003cb\u003etransformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a \u003cb\u003ehybrid surreal-real language of living\u003c\/b\u003e : hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the \u003cb\u003eCommunist political ideals\u003c\/b\u003e which Kahlo shared with Rivera. The artist described her paintings as \u003cb\u003e“the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces a rich body of Kahlo’s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Series:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea concise biography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eapproximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052580094192,"sku":"9783836500852","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836500852_p0.jpg?v=1769887961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836500852","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}