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Beginning In The Late 1970's Frida Kahlo Achieved Cult Heroine Status Less For Her Richly Surrealist Self-portraits Than By The Popularization Of The Events Of Her Tumultuous Life. Her Images Were Splashed Across Billboards Magazine Ads, And Postcards; Fashion Designers Copied The So-called Frida Look In Hairstyles And Dress; And Fridamania Even Extended To T-shirts, Jewelry, And Nail Polish. Margaret A. Lindauer Argues That This Mass Market Assimilation Of Kahlo's Identity Has Consistently Detracted From Appreciation Of Her Work, Leading Instead To Narrow Interpretations Based On An Entrenched Narrative Of Suffering. While She Agrees That Kahlo's Political And Feminist Activism, Her Stormy Marriage To Fellow Artist Diego Reviera, And The Tragic Reality Of A Progressively Debilitated Body Did Represent A Biography Colored By Emotional And Physical Upheaval, She Questions An Author-equals-the-work Critical Tradition That Assumes A :one-to-one Association Of Life Events To The Meaning Of A Painting. In Kahlo's Case, Lindauer Says, Such Assumptions Created A Devouring Mythology, An Iconization That Separates Us From Rather Than Leads Us To The Real Significance Of The Oeuvre. Accompan

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Author

Margaret A Lindauer; Frida Kahlo; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283110143

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Art, Science