Description

The visionary and largely self-taught artist Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from folk art : painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votive offerings, effigies, children's toys, and other objects created in rural and indigenous communities across Mexico. The hundreds of folk art objects that filled her home and studio testify to her nationalist ideology and her fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, papier-mâché sculptors, and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and incorporated elements of traditional dress and ornamentation into her own work, playing with the modernist fascination with popular culture and her own multifaceted relationship with Mexican identity.

This bilingual book, the first in-depth exploration of Kahlo's varied and sophisticated responses to folk art, places her within the broader artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions, and highlights the innovative techniques she employed in her lifelong, playful, and profound encounter with Mexican folk art.

Includes 195 color illustrations

Layla Bermeo is Curator of Painting Kristin and Roger Servison, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Author
Layla Bermeo

Technical specifications
Publisher: MFA Publications — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Year: 2022
Type: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 27.5 x 23.5 cm
Weight: 1.3 kg
Language: Bilingual - Spanish / English
Pages: 216
ISBN: 978-0-87846-888-1