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Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida K
- Publication Date
- 1999-04-30
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN
- 081956348X
- Subject Area
- Art, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Devouring Frida : the Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- General, Women's Studies
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
081956348X
ISBN-13
9780819563484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038719237
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Publication Name
Devouring Frida : the Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo
Language
English
Subject
General, Women's Studies
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
9847-000641
Reviews
"This brilliant analysis of one of our most outstanding and popular artists of the twentieth century is a significant contribution to Kahlo studies and to the history of art, women's studies, ethnic studies, and Mexican studies in general."--Maria Herrera-Sobek, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara "This brilliant analysis of one of our most outstanding and popular artists of the twentieth century is a significant contribution to Kahlo studies and to the history of art, women's studies, ethnic studies, and Mexican studies in general."--Maria Herrera-Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara "This is the first book to deal with the 'second wave' of Fridamania-the institutionalization of the painter as a cultural commodity four decades after her own lifetime. Liindauer accomplishes this with accuracy and finesse. Devouring Frida is highly recommended to colleagues and students in women's studies, Latin American studies, the comparative arts, and popular culture."--Claudia Schaefer, University of Rochester, "This brilliant analysis of one of our most outstanding and popular artists of the twentieth century is a significant contribution to Kahlo studies and to the history of art, women's studies, ethnic studies, and Mexican studies in general."--Maria Herrera-Sobek, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations I. Preface II. Introduction: Rereading Frida Kahlo 1. Frida as a Wife/Artist in Mexico 2. Frida of the Blood-Covered Paint Brush 3. The Language of the Missing Mother 4. Unveiling Politics 5. Fetishizing Frida 6. Notes 7. Bibliography 8. Index
Synopsis
Beginning in the late 1970's Frida Kahlo achieved cult heroine status less for her richly surrealist self-portraits than by the popularization of the events of her tumultuous life. Her images were splashed across billboards magazine ads, and postcards; fashion designers copied the so-called "Frida" look in hairstyles and dress; and "Fridamania" even extended to T-shirts, jewelry, and nail polish. Margaret A. Lindauer argues that this mass market assimilation of Kahlo's identity has consistently detracted from appreciation of her work, leading instead to narrow interpretations based on "an entrenched narrative of suffering." While she agrees that Kahlo's political and feminist activism, her stormy marriage to fellow artist Diego Reviera, and the tragic reality of a progressively debilitated body did represent a biography colored by emotional and physical upheaval, she questions an "author-equals-the-work" critical tradition that assumes a: one-to-one association of life events to the meaning of a painting." In kahlo's case, Lindauer says, such assumptions created a devouring mythology, an iconization that separates us from rather than leads us to the real significance of the oeuvre. Accompanied by 26 illustrations and deep analysis of Kahlo's central themes, this provocative, semiotic study recontextualizes an important figure in art history at the same time it addresses key questions about the language of interpretation, the nature of veneration, and the truths within self-representation., The first full-length feminist analysis of Frida Kahlo and the myths surrounding her. Beginning in the late 1970's Frida Kahlo achieved cult heroine status less for her richly surrealist self-portraits than by the popularization of the events of her tumultuous life. Her images were splashed across billboards magazine ads, and postcards; fashion designers copied the so-called "Frida" look in hairstyles and dress; and "Fridamania" even extended to T-shirts, jewelry, and nail polish. Margaret A. Lindauer argues that this mass market assimilation of Kahlo's identity has consistently detracted from appreciation of her work, leading instead to narrow interpretations based on "an entrenched narrative of suffering." While she agrees that Kahlo's political and feminist activism, her stormy marriage to fellow artist Diego Reviera, and the tragic reality of a progressively debilitated body did represent a biography colored by emotional and physical upheaval, she questions an "author-equals-the-work" critical tradition that assumes a: one-to-one association of life events to the meaning of a painting." In kahlo's case, Lindauer says, such assumptions created a devouring mythology, an iconization that separates us from rather than leads us to the real significance of the oeuvre. Accompanied by 26 illustrations and deep analysis of Kahlo's central themes, this provocative, semiotic study recontextualizes an important figure in art history at the same time it addresses key questions about the language of interpretation, the nature of veneration, and the truths within self-representation., The first full-length feminist analysis of Frida Kahlo and the myths surrounding her. Beginning in the late 1970's Frida Kahlo achieved cult heroine status less for her richly surrealist self-portraits than by the popularization of the events of her tumultuous life. Her images were splashed across billboards magazine ads, and postcards; fashion designers copied the so-called "Frida" look in hairstyles and dress; and "Fridamania" even extended to T-shirts, jewelry, and nail polish. Margaret A. Lindauer argues that this mass market assimilation of Kahlo's identity has consistently detracted from appreciation of her work, leading instead to narrow interpretations based on "an entrenched narrative of suffering." While she agrees that Kahlo's political and feminist activism, her stormy marriage to fellow artist Diego Reviera, and the tragic reality of a progressively debilitated body did represent a biography colored by emotional and physical upheaval, she questions an "author-equals-the-work" critical tradition that assumes a :one-to-one association of life events to the meaning of a painting." In kahlo's case, Lindauer says, such assumptions created a devouring mythology, an iconization that separates us from rather than leads us to the real significance of the oeuvre. Accompanied by 26 illustrations and deep analysis of Kahlo's central themes, this provocative, semiotic study recontextualizes an important figure in art history at the same time it addresses key questions about the language of interpretation, the nature of veneration, and the truths within self-representation.
LC Classification Number
ND259.K33L56 1999
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