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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Finding Frida Kahlo presents for the first time in print an astonishing lost archive of one of the twentieth century’s most revered artists. Hidden from view for over half a century this richly illustrated intimate portrait overflows with fascinating details about Kahlo’s romances friendships and business affairs during a three-decade period beginning in the 1920s when she was a teenager and ending just before she died in 1954. Full of ardent desires seething fury and outrageous humor Finding Frida Kahlo is a rare glimpse into an exuberant and troubled existence: A vivid diary entry records her sexual encounter with a woman named Doroti; a painted box contains eleven stuffedhummingbirds concealed beneath a letter in which she laments her discovery that her husband Diego Rivera had been monstrously dissecting “these beautiful creatures” to extract an aphrodisiac; an altered French medical book describes the pain she was suffering from the amputation of her right leg written by Kahlo upon pages that illustrate an amputation technique; a letter to a friend expresses her loneliness and a simple request for coconut candies. Frida Kahlo never wrote an autobiography. Instead she left behind a much more complex material universe. Finding Frida Kahlo offers scholars and fans alike an opportunity to examine firsthand Kahlo’s secret world and draw their own conclusions about how she imagined her place in it. (MP)