by Hayden Herrera · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408045809
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«Frida, una biografía de Frida Kahlo» is the biography Hayden Herrera devoted to the Mexican painter, published by Planeta in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
This biography traces Frida Kahlo's life from her childhood during the Mexican Revolution and the accident that marked her body at eighteen, to her career as a painter and her marriage to Diego Rivera. It also covers her circle of friends, including León Trotski, Nelson Rockefeller, André Breton and Isamu Noguchi, and her passion for Mexican folklore and culture.
The translation is by Angelika Scherp. This edition includes original letters and documents. The English original of this work was published in 1983.
For readers interested in biographies, art history and Mexican culture, as well as in the figure of Frida Kahlo.
Hayden Herrera is an American author and historian. Her book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo was turned into a movie in 2002 and Herrera's biography Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work was named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
