Frida Kahlo
✍ Scribed by John F. Morrison, Frida Kahlo
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publishers
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 111
- Series
- The Great Hispanic heritage
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A biography of the Mexican painter who survived a near-fatal bus accident at the age of eighteen, learned to paint as a form of therapy, had a stormy marriage with Diego Rivera, and became a world-famous artist.
✦ Table of Contents
TOC......Page 6
Ch 1: The Unconquerable Spirit......Page 7
Ch 2: Diego Rivera, Frida’s Destiny......Page 21
Ch 3: Sundays with the “Little Devil”......Page 29
Ch 4: The Elephant and the Dove......Page 37
Ch 5: The Perils of “Gringolandia”......Page 51
Ch 6: “A Few Little Pricks”......Page 63
Ch 7: Artist of the Casa Azul......Page 77
Ch 8: Long Live Life!......Page 91
Chronology......Page 101
Bibliography......Page 104
Websites......Page 105
Further Reading......Page 106
Index......Page 107
About the Author......Page 111
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