Kahlo, Frida

Presents a full-color facsimile of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's illustrated journal in which she recorded her thoughts, poems, dreams, and drawings during the last ten years of her life, from 1944 to 1954, followed by a complete English translation, commentaries on the images, and an introductory essay.

"Carlos Fuentes writes passionately and brilliantly about Frida Kahlo in the introduction of this book, which reproduces the pages and drawings of Kahlo?s personal diary. Sarah M. Lowe, who wrote the commentaries and the essay, provides a more balanced view. Work is a curious gathering of thoughts and feelings, observations and annotations, and indeed makes the reader feel that he/she is entering forbidden and intimate territory. A deep realm, at times tender and dark, the book will probably make Kahlo?s many fans eager to dive in"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Collects letters, notes, poems, and other personal writings by twentieth-century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, covering a period that ranges from 1922 to 1953, providing insights into her life and thinking.