The Diary of Frida Kahlo (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Frida Kahlo
- First Published: 1995
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Love or romance, Art or artists, Death or dying, Creative process, Painting or painters, Mexico or Mexicans, Diseases, Drawing
The Work
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait was drawn, painted, and written during the last decade of the Mexican painter’s life. During these years, her health, precarious since a 1925 accident, declined precipitously. She spent the years from 1944 until her death encased in a series of eight surgical corsets, often bedridden or confined to a wheelchair. In 1953, she was forced to have her gangrenous left leg amputated; her spirit never entirely recovered, and she died on July 13, 1954. The evidence of Kahlo’s declining physical and mental state is...
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