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Frida Folk
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Frida Folk

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 9383145978
ISBN-13 9789383145973
Publisher Tara Books
Imprint Tara Books
Country of Manufacture IN
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 15th, 2018
Print length 192 Pages
Weight 1,008 grams
Dimensions 26.90 x 24.20 x 2.10 cms
Ksh 6,300.00
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The ways in which the great Mexican artist is kept alive in popular memory through countless souvenirs, images and mementos is unprecedented in the world of art... did Frida herself lay some of these trails?
Here’s another book about Frida Kahlo, and this one doesn’t feature even a single original painting. What it does contain are encounters with her— curious, moving, or just fun—from around the world. From Frida fashion dolls to little clay Friditas, all of us at some point have encountered the countless souvenirs, images and mementos that reinvent the great Mexican artist, and keep her alive in popular memory. Her own painting was steeped in Mexican folk art, and the connection has turned out to be curiously reciprocal. Artists, activists and academics around the world have been inspired by her life, art, and persona, to come up with extraordinary and at times very curious tributes to her. The ways in which she is repeatedly re-labeled and re-invented is unprecedented in the world of art. Is this global appropriation of Frida as an icon— Fridamania—just commercial kitsch?

Or is there another way of thinking about the phenomenon? Featuring a staggering variety of Frida objects, images and mementos in every conceivable material, this book traces some of the trails that Frida herself laid... a legacy which allows people to create their own countless versions of her.

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