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Frida. L’artiste-peintre qu’on ne nomme que par son prénom est aussi chatoyante, dans ses robes traditionnelles colorées, que son langage est effronté. Mais elle est aussi sensible, abîmée et malade.
Un accident de bus à 18 ans la plongea dans une souffrance physique constante. Depuis, Frida Kahlo ne cessa de vivre dans un « conflit entre une Frida morte et une Frida vivante », une dualité excessivement humaine que nous présente Hayden Herrera dans cette biographie intime et documentée.
Jeune élève rebelle de l’École nationale préparatoire de Mexico, puis militante communiste, elle côtoya très tôt les muralistes et les artistes révolutionnaires. Elle créa un art singulier, comme un miroir de sa vie, qui suscita l’admiration de Pablo Picasso, Juan Miró ou encore Wassily Kandinsky.
Nous découvrons aussi à travers de nombreuses lettres et extraits de son journal intime qu’elle fut l’amie de Nelson Rockefeller, de Tina Modotti ou encore d’André Breton et qu’elle vécut ses drames amoureux avec Trotski ou Nickolas Muray sous l’ombre maritale, irremplaçable et mythique de Diego Rivera.
Près de soixante-dix ans après sa disparition, l’histoire de cette femme à l’humour et à l’imagination débordants reste aussi extraordinaire, aussi bouleversante que sa légende et que son univers pictural.

A reissue of the beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo, publishing in time for a major London exhibition
Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still – so she began to paint.
Kahlo's unique talent was to make her one of the century's most enduring artists. But her remarkable paintings were only one element of a rich and dramatic life. Frida is also the story of her tempestuous marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera, her love affairs with numerous, diverse men such as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, her involvement with the Communist Party, her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture, and of the inspiration behind her unforgettable art.

Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle-as both an artist and a man-was to embrace his conflicted identity as the son of a single American woman and a famous yet reclusive Japanese father. "It's only in art," he insisted, "that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all."

In this remarkable biography of the elusive artist, Hayden Herrera observes this driving force of Noguchi's creativity as intimately tied to his deep appreciation of nature. As a boy in Japan, Noguchi would collect wild azaleas and blue mountain flowers for a little garden in front of his home. As Herrera writes, he also included a rock, "to give a feeling of weight and permanence." It was a sensual appreciation he never abandoned. When looking for stones in remote Japanese quarries for his zen-like Paris garden forty years later, he would spend hours actually listening to the stones, scrambling from one to another until he found one that "spoke to him." Constantly striving to "take the essence of nature and distill it," Noguchi moved from sculpture to furniture, and from playgrounds to sets for his friend the choreographer Martha Graham, and back again working in wood, iron, clay, steel, aluminum, and, of course, stone.

Noguchi traveled constantly, from New York to Paris to India to Japan, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the "keen edge of originality." Wherever he went, his needy disposition and boyish charm drew women to him, yet he tended to push them away when things began to feel too settled. Only through his art-now seen as a powerful aesthetic link between the East and the West-did Noguchi ever seem to feel that he belonged.

Combining Noguchi's personal correspondence and interviews with those closest to him-from artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers-Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors. She locates Noguchi in his friendships with such artists as Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women including Frida Kahlo and Anna Matta Clark. With the attention to detail and scholarship that made her biography of Gorky a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Herrera has written a rich meditation on art in a globalized milieu. Listening to Stone is a moving portrait of an artist compulsively driven to reinvent himself as he searched for his own "essence of sculpture."

Необыкновенно живая и яркая биография знаменитой мексиканской художницы Фриды Кало - это зачаровывающая история бунтарского искусства, романтических убеждений, эксцентричных любовных связей и нескончаемых физических страданий. После ее смерти остались не только холсты, но и жгучие строчки этой биографии, в которых несгибаемая воля, бесконечная боль и, конечно,…

Необыкновенно живая и яркая биография знаменитой мексиканской художницы Фриды Кало - это зачаровывающая история бунтарского искусства, романтических убеждений, эксцентричных любовных связей и нескончаемых физических страданий.
После ее смерти остались не только холсты, но и жгучие строчки этой биографии, в которых несгибаемая воля, бесконечная боль и, конечно, любовь, которая дана далеко не каждому.
Молодежь зачитывается ее дневниками, геи и лесбиянки подняли на щит ее высказывания, феминистки воспринимают саму ее жизнь как руководство к действию. Так многолика и велика Фрида.
И хотя со дня ее смерти в 1954 году прошло уже более полувека, восхищение этой легендарной женщиной не угасает до сих пор.

The engaging paintings of Joan Snyder have never been easily categorized. Though often placed under various art-movement umbrellas-Abstract Expressionism, lyrical abstractionism, or feminism-it is the changing nature of her work that has kept her

Необыкновенно живая и яркая биография знаменитой мексиканской художницы Фриды Кало - это зачаровывающая история бунтарского искусства, романтических убеждений, эксцентричных любовных связей и нескончаемых физических страданий. После ее смерти

Необыкновенно живая и яркая биография знаменитой мексиканской художницы Фриды Кало - это зачаровывающая история бунтарского искусства, романтических убеждений, эксцентричных любовных связей и нескончаемых физических страданий.
После ее смерти остались не только холсты, но и жгучие строчки этой биографии, в которых несгибаемая воля, бесконечная боль и, конечно, любовь, которая дана далеко не каждому.
Молодежь зачитывается ее дневниками, геи и лесбиянки подняли на щит ее высказывания, феминистки воспринимают саму ее жизнь как руководство к действию. Так многолика и велика Фрида.
И хотя со дня ее смерти в 1954 году прошло уже пятьдесят лет, восхищение этой легендарной женщиной не угасает до сих пор.

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, especially Ce zanne and Picasso. By the early forties, Gorky had entered his most fruitful period and developed the style that is seen as the link between European modernism and American abstract expressionism. His masterpieces influenced the great generation of American painters in the late forties, even as Gorky faced a series of personal catastrophes: a studio fire, cancer, and a car accident that temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. Further demoralized by the dissolution of his seven-year marriage, Gorky hanged himself in 1948.
A sympathetic, sensitive account of artistic and personal triumph as well as tragedy, Hayden Herrera' s biography is the first to interpret Gorky' s work in depth. The result of more than three decades of scholarship-- and a lifelong engagement with Gorky' s paintings-- "Arshile Gorky" traces the progress from apprentice to master of the man Andre Breton called " the most important painter in American history."