Frida Kahlo and arte popular

Resource Information

The work Frida Kahlo and arte popular represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Frida Kahlo and arte popular

Statement of responsibility

Layla Bermeo

Creator

• Kahlo, Frida

Contributor

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Bermeo, Layla

Artist

• Kahlo, Frida

Author

• Bermeo, Layla

Curator

• Bermeo, Layla

Host institution

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Subject

• Handicraft in art -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Kahlo, Frida -- Criticism and interpretation
• Kahlo, Frida -- Exhibitions
• Painting, Mexican -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Women artists -- Mexico
• Art, Mexican -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Folk art -- Mexico -- Influence -- Exhibitions

Genre

• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

"The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular--painted ceramics, embroidered textiles, religious votives, effigies and children's toys, and other objects created in Mexico's rural and Indigenous communities. The hundreds of folk art objects that filled her home and studio attest to her nationalist politics and fascination with the work of carvers, weavers, sculptors of papier-mâché, and vernacular painters. She depicted these objects in her paintings and adopted elements of traditional dress and ornament in her own self-presentation, playing on modernist fascination with folk culture and on her own relation to layered Mexican identity. This bilingual book, the first in-depth exploration of Kahlo's varied and sophisticated responses to arte popular, situates her within the broad artistic and intellectual movements of her time, examines her professional ambitions, and illuminates the innovative techniques she used in her lifelong encounter, both playful and powerful, with the folk art of Mexico"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

759.972

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Language note

Text in English and Spanish

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs