The stunning works of Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) often expressed trauma. Through an almost fatal car accident at age 18, health issues, a tumultuous marriage, miscarriage, and childlessness, she transformed these hardships into revolutionary art.

In her literal or metaphorical self-portraits, Kahlo gazes at the viewer with a bold look, rejecting her fate as a passive victim and incorporating expressions of her experience into a hybrid language of vivid-surreal images: hair, roots, veins, tendrils, and trumpets.

Many of her creations explore the communist political ideals she shared with her husband, Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as “the most sincere and genuine thing I could do to express what I felt inside and outside myself.”

This book presents Kahlo's rich body of work, exploring her relentless determination as an artist and her significance as a painter, feminist symbol, and pioneer of Latin American culture.

Pages: 96, Year of Publication: 2015, Dimensions: 21x21cm