The Labyrinth of Frida Kahlo (Spanish w/ English Translation & Commentary) (English and Spanish Edition)
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Review This book, published in 2008, presents selections from the Carlos Noyola collection of recently discovered 1200 letters, drawings, personal items, notes, bills, receipts, and other items attributable to Frida Kahlo and under study there. The significance of the Noyola collection is in its historical detail not found in existing published works but in footnotes here, researched and identified. This collection includes new depth, suggests intimate and detailed information about the life and associations of Frida Kahlo - material that has not been seen publicly before. --AuthorsThis book, published in 2008, presents selections from the Carlos Noyola collection of recently discovered 1200 letters, drawings, personal items, notes, bills, receipts, and other items attributable to Frida Kahlo and under study there. The significance of the Noyola collection is in its historical detail and depth, providing intimate and detailed information about the life and associations of Frida Kahlo - material that has not been seen publicly before. ---- Daniel FriedmanI just returned from 10 days in Japan to find your excellent publication on the Kahlo material you encountered in San Miguel. It's a great publication and would make a fascinating exhibition with lots of interdisciplinary options given the poetry and autobiographical insights. ---- J Mundy, Director, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Read more About the Author Jennifer Church is full professor of Philosophy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, specializing in philosophy of mind. - - - Daniel Friedman is a journalist, microscopist and forensic investigator in Poughkeepsie, New York, specializing in particle identification, paint failure, art and artifact conservation support for museums, artists, art conservators, and supporting building/environmental investigations. - - - Both Church and Friedman have spent more than five years in Mexico where they assisted in the cataloging and study of a large, recently-discovered collection of unique works, paintings, drawings, poems, letters attributed to Frida Kahlo. The collection includes extensive ephemera as well as her personal mementos. - - - Church and Friedman are academic and technical researchers, and do not work as art authenticators. Their work in preparing this text is to encourage examination and further study of these very interesting materials. - - - The collection's provenance indicates that prior to her death Kahlo passed these items on to a friend and wood carver Abraham Jiminez, perhaps wanting them out of her home because of their controversial, critical, and emotional nature. - - - Independent studies of representative examples from this collection have dated the paint pigment, ink, paper, and materials to the time of Kahlo's life, a time when Kahlo had difficulty selling her own work and when its imitation seems unlikely. Paint migration study indicates that the works were created during her life. Intimate and historical details are consistent with Kahlo's life, but in some cases offer new and interesting material such as Kahlo/Rivera visits to Cuba, her relations with Dorothy Hale and Chavela Vargas, her admiration of outlaw and poet Tiburcio, her friendship with poet Carlos Pellicer, and the pain, suffering and ambivalence she felt towards her own suffering. - - - The discoverers and current owners of the collection, themselves art experts with more than 35 years of experience, include antiquarian Carlos Noyola and his wife and art conservationist Leticia Fernandez as well as their son Diego Noyola. Read more
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