Frida A Biography of Frida Kahlo

"A haunting, highly vivid biography" (Ms. magazine)-now a major motion picture starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina, directed by Julie Taymor 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 folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle. Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman-with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.Herrera, Hayden is the author of 'Frida A Biography of Frida Kahlo', published 2002 under ISBN 9780060085896 and ISBN 0060085894.