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Frida Kahlo : Self-portrait with cropped hair / Jodi Roberts.

Title
  1. Frida Kahlo : Self-portrait with cropped hair / Jodi Roberts.
Published by
  1. New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]
Author
  1. Roberts, Jodi,

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Additional authors
  1. Kahlo, Frida.
Description
  1. 45 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 23 cm
Summary
  1. Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man?s suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo?s (1907?54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940). Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo?s. In the wake of a divorce from artist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns to her favorite genre, self-portraiture, to express her deepest emotional and psychological urges. Inscribed with the lyrics of a popular song that translate as ?Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that you?re without it I no longer love you,? the work oscillates between evocations of a popular culture shared by many and unflinching forays into the private sphere. Curator Jodi Roberts' essay, too, moves between the public and the private as it situates Kahlo?s painting in the context of the Mexican Revolution?s legacy, the Surrealist tradition and the artist?s own life to explore the ways in which Kahlo constructed and reconstructed her own identity.
Series statement
  1. One on one series
Uniform title
  1. 1 on one.
Alternative title
  1. Self-portrait with cropped hair
Subject
  1. Kahlo, Frida > Self-portrait with cropped hair
  2. Kahlo, Frida > Self-portraits
  3. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
  4. Self-portraits
  5. Art > New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
  1. Self-portraits.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. "Each volume in the One on One series is a sustained meditation on a single work from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art"--Page 2 of cover.