Edward Lucie-Smith presents Frida Kahlo

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Title: Frida Kahlo

Series: Studies in World Art, Book 29

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Willis Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:07:00

Release date: 12-22-17

Genres: History

Publisher's Summary: Going to the Frida Kahlo exhibition current at Tate Modern in London is like entering the shrine of a secular saint. The rooms are thronged. People peer closely at the paintings, many of them very small. They seem afraid to talk much above a whisper. There are a number of reasons for this reaction. One is Hayden Herreras highly readable biography of the artist, first published in 1983, and now established as a classic feminist text. Another is the feminist movements general need for heroines, which has had a similar effect on the posthumous reputation of Georgia OKeeffe. A third, probably the most powerful, reason is Kahlos own personality, which combined self-assertion, defiance and masochism in almost equal proportions. In this respect Kahlo can be compared with a slightly later generation of English-language poets, male and female. Prominent among them are Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.