Kahlo : The Bigger Picture

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Saturated with color and brimming with insight into Frida Kahlo’s œuvre, this sumptuous book presents her art in all its intensity, detail, and visual power, with six magnificent fold-outs interspersed throughout the book.

Frida Kahlo’s art and life are inseparable, and this volume follows her full creative arc through about ninety works — from early self‑portraits to paintings shaped by pain, politics, love and uncompromising self‑expression. Large reproductions and detailed close‑ups invite slow looking, revealing both her bold compositions and the intimate symbols woven into each piece.

Six fold‑outs present landmark paintings at expanded scale, paired with texts that blend biography and visual analysis to show how Kahlo transformed her physical reality and emotional world into powerful imagery. With its cloth binding and Kahlo‑inspired sprayed edges, the book is designed as an object to linger over — a vivid, immersive addition to any art library.

Product Information

Author: Ines Boittiaux
Language: Angļu valoda
Year of publication: 2026
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
Cover type: Hard cover
Number of pages: 172
product.Svars: 0.340 kg
ISBN code: 9783791394398

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Saturated with color and brimming with insight into Frida Kahlo’s œuvre, this sumptuous book presents her art in all its intensity, detail, and visual power, with six magnificent fold-outs interspersed throughout the book.

Few artists have fused life and art as completely as Frida Kahlo, whose paintings transform personal experience into images of extraordinary force. Bringing together approximately ninety works, this book traces the full arc of her career—from early self-portraits to paintings shaped by love, politics, physical suffering, and fierce independence.

The often full-page or double-page reproductions and details of the works encourage close looking, allowing readers to move between Kahlo’s commanding compositions and the quieter details that carry emotional and symbolic weight.

Interspersed throughout the volume are six large-format fold-outs devoted to landmark paintings, including Self-Portrait (in a Velvet Dress), Self-Portrait (on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States), The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, Self-Portrait (Diego on My Mind), and Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Doctor Eloesser).

Reproduced at an expanded scale, these fold-outs reward sustained attention to brushwork, surface, and detailed iconography. The accompanying texts integrate biography with visual analysis, clarifying how Kahlo’s art absorbed the realities of her body, her relationships, and her political beliefs. Featuring a cloth binding and sprayed edges drawn from Kahlo’s imagery, this is a book designed to be lingered over—an absorbing object for devoted admirers and a striking addition to any art library.