by Frida Kahlo · Madrid-Debate / Barcelona-Circulo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474449181
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«El diario de Frida Kahlo» is Frida Kahlo's illustrated diary, published by Debate and Círculo de Lectores in hardback (296 pages).
The diary covers the last ten years of Frida Kahlo's life (1944-1954): thoughts, poems and dreams, along with watercolours and self-portraits that reveal her creative process and her relationship with Diego Rivera.
The edition, published in 1995, is in Spanish and includes an introduction by Carlos Fuentes and an essay with commentary by Sarah M. Lowe.
For readers interested in Frida Kahlo, Mexican art and artists' intimate diaries.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million.
