Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular
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Author: Kahlo, Frida
Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular – painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys created in Mexico’s rural and Indigenous communities. This bilingual book situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico.The hundreds of folk-art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and her fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity.
ISBN 9780878468881. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 240 pages. 120 colour ills. 27 x 23 cm.
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Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular – painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys created in Mexico’s rural and Indigenous communities. This bilingual book situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico.The hundreds of folk-art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and her fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity.
ISBN 9780878468881. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 240 pages. 120 colour ills. 27 x 23 cm.
available