Best Selling Books by Hayden Herrera

An in-depth biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo details her haunting and original painting style, her turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her association with communism, and her love of Mexican culture and folklore

"By the 1940s, Gorky had developed a style that is seen as the link between European modernism and American abstract expressionism. His masterpieces influenced the great generations of American painters who came of age after World War II, even as Gorky faced a series of personal catastrophes: a studio fire that destroyed dozens of his paintings, a wasting battle with cancer, and a car accident that temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. Further demoralized by the dissolution of his seven-year marriage, Gorky hanged himself in 1948."--BOOK JACKET.

"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--

"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--

In small, stunningly rendered self–portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo‘s life and their meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full–color paintings, as well as dozens of black–and–white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and little–known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self–Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life.

April 9 - May 3, 1997

I denna magnifika bok går konstvetaren Hayden Herrera på djupet i den fascinerande och sprakande historien om Frida Kahlo, en av världens mest ikoniska konstnärer och människor: Hennes barndom i Mexiko City under den mexikanska revolutionen. Hennes fascination för mexikansk folklore och kultur. Samröret med kommunisterna. Det stormiga äktenskap med konstnären Diego Rivera. Hennes många kärleksaffärer och den tragiska olycka som skadade henne för livet och gjorde så att hon aldrig kunde få barn. Frida Kahlo är rikt illustrerad med foton och målningar - en lyxigt formgiven, fängslande biografi, oumbärlig för alla som är intresserade av Frida Kahlo. HAYDEN HERRERA är en amerikansk konsthistoriker och författare. Hon har skrivit biografier om Henri Matisse och Mary Frank och hennes texter har publicerats i bland annat New York Times och Art in America. 1996 mottog hon det prestigefyllda Guggenheim Fellowship-priset. »En förtrollande berättelse om radikal konst, romantisk politik, bisarra kärlekar och fysiskt lidande.« Time Magazine »Hayden Herrera lyckas på ett imponerande sätt skära sig igenom myterna och ge oss en bild av denna sagolika kvinna.« The Independent »Frida Kahlo kommer att inta platsen som den första omfattande biografin över denna den mest fysiska av konstnärer.« The Observer

Excellent art criticism and biography of Matisse. Black & white photos of the artist in repose along with full-color reproductions of his paintings.