FRIDA BY FRIDA (ENGLISH EDITION)

Frida Kahlo, the writer? This new expanded edition of the painter’s letters, poems, and miscellaneous writings, selected by art critic Raquel Tibol, reveals the considerable but little-known literary talent of Frida, and constitutes a “tacit autobiography” of the painter. In this self-portrait we see Frida, in Tibol’s words, “swinging back and forth between sincerity and manipulation, self-complacency and self-flagellation, with her insatiable need for affection, her erotic upheavals, her touches of humor…” As the figure of Frida becomes increasingly fixed –and inevitably distorted– as a cultural icon, this book recovers the artist as she saw and expressed herself, her “soul and intimacy laid bare.”