弗里达·卡洛是一位女神吗？在墨西哥和美国，弗里达受到人们狂热的顶礼膜拜。她究竟是怎样的画家？一个瘸子，一个被公共汽车栏杆捅了个洞的女人？一个躺在床上接受一次又一次的手术，和身材魁梧的丈夫里维拉吵架，和男人女人都谈情说爱，却画出了惊世骇俗的作品的女人？ 本书是一本弗里达的精神传记，更是解读弗里达的绘画的密码———她绘画中的象征，都是活生生的现实———虽然被刻意打上了一些超现实的幻影。在这些看似光怪陆离的画面背后究竟隐藏着怎样的血泪史？作者从镜子、项链、爱情、性别、动植物、政治、疾病、超现实、弗里达身后的荣耀九个角度，深入地剖析弗里达绘画的前因后果，弗里达在画中落泪、痛苦的缘由，以及那些猴子、缎带、植物背景、人物与服饰的隐秘含义。

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle. Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) is one of the most important 20th-century painters and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In the vibrant colors of her native Mexico, she expressed the burdens that weighed upon her soul. Full-color reproductions and thorough text provide a quick yet solid introduction to this master.