Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris

Caitlin Haskell

ISBN 10: 0300279663 / ISBN 13: 9780300279665

Verlag: Yale University Press Jun 2025, 2025

Beschreibung

Neuware -The richly illustrated story of a brief yet pivotal encounter in Paris between Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds, two luminaries of the Surrealist movementIn February 1939, while visiting Paris at the invitation of writer Andre¿ Breton, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) became sick and convalesced at the home of American expatriate Mary Reynolds (1891-1950), an avant-garde bookbinder, collector of Surrealist artist books, and partner of Marcel Duchamp. This book traces the story of Kahlo and Reynolds's connection and its influence on their work, even after the friendship had elapsed.Kahlo and Reynolds's intense encounter unfolds in this volume through the artworks they each made, their shared exploration of Reynolds's expansive Surrealist library, and letters from Kahlo to her lover, American photographer Nickolas Muray, in which she recounted her time in Paris. Included in this focused study are paintings and drawings by Kahlo, selections of books by Reynolds, photographs by Muray of Kahlo, depictions of Reynolds by artists in Paris, and a selection of letters between Kahlo and Reynolds describing their defining experience together.Distributed for the Art Institute of ChicagoExhibition Schedule:Art Institute of Chicago(March 29-July 13, 2025) 112 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780300279665

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris
• Verlag: Yale University Press Jun 2025
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0300279663
• ISBN-13: 9780300279665
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 268B x 226 H x 17 T Millimeter Breite: 268 mm, Höhe: 226 mm, Tiefe: 17 mm
• Gewicht: 766 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The richly illustrated story of a brief yet pivotal encounter in Paris between Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds, two luminaries of the Surrealist movement
 
In February 1939, while visiting Paris at the invitation of writer André Breton, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) became sick and convalesced at the home of American expatriate Mary Reynolds (1891–1950), an avant-garde bookbinder, collector of Surrealist artist books, and partner of Marcel Duchamp. This book traces the story of Kahlo and Reynolds’s connection and its influence on their work, even after the friendship had elapsed.
 
Kahlo and Reynolds’s intense encounter unfolds in this volume through the artworks they each made, their shared exploration of Reynolds’s expansive Surrealist library, and letters from Kahlo to her lover, American photographer Nickolas Muray, in which she recounted her time in Paris. Included in this focused study are paintings and drawings by Kahlo, selections of books by Reynolds, photographs by Muray of Kahlo, depictions of Reynolds by artists in Paris, and a selection of letters between Kahlo and Reynolds describing their defining experience together.
 
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
 
Exhibition Schedule:
 
Art Institute of Chicago
(March 29–July 13, 2025)

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Caitlin Haskell is the Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art and director of the Ray Johnson Collections and Research, and Alivé Piliado Santana is a research associate in Modern and Contemporary Art, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.