Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation

by Gannit Ankori

Though often portrayed in scholarly literature as a spontaneous artist, Frida Kahlo worked in a quite deliberate manner, basing her paintings on diverse cultural and philosophical sources. Imaging Her Selves uncovers the unexplored visual and textual foundations of Kahlo's imagery, illustrating--through a detailed study of her diary, letters, library collection, and other material-- the complex multilayered meanings of the many selves she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313315655
• ISBN13: 9780313315657
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"