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By: HAYDEN HERRERA
Price: $12.50
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS TRADE DIVISION:
Seller ID: IM3571
ISBN: 0060085894
Condition: GOOD CONDITION
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklor... View more info
By: HAYDEN HERRERA
Price: $20.00
Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, INC.:
Seller ID: IM97690
ISBN: 0374113238
Condition: GOOD CONDITION
From the Author of "Frida," the Moving and Heroic Story of One of the Central Painters of the Twentieth Century Born in Turkey around 1900, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to watch his mother die of starvation and his family scatter in their flight from the Turks. Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the pseudonym Arshile Gorky-- and obliterated his past. Claiming to be a distant cousin of the novelist Maxim Gorky, he found work as an art teacher and undertook a program of rigorous study, schooling himself in the modern painters he most admired, espe... View more info
