- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; New edition edition (29 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0810981955
- ISBN-13: 978-0810981959
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,159,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The reproduction of Frida Kahlo's diary ... is a very special publishing event .... This replica is a beautiful fabrication, authentic in its details and faithful to the original....Her diary is a gorgeous phoenix: it adds to the luster of her posthumous life as an artist."
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Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) kept a remarkable diary revealing the passion and strength of the final ten years of her anguished life. This volume is a facsimile which includes her own brightly coloured paintings and drawings.
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Graphically rich!,
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This review is from: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-portrait (Abradale Books) (Hardcover)
If you are expecting a standard diary, full of descriptions of what happened today, who visited for breakfast, and what Frida had for dinner - then don't order this book. Frida's diary is an amazing combination of text and paintings. She writes random comments with little consideration of form. In fact, many of the things she writes are random lists of words, or letters to loves that are never sent, or even descriptions of fantastic events that never occur outside of her imagination. It's like a huge and colorful experiment in free writing and unconscious expression. Combine these words with the sketches, paintings, and drawing scattered about - sometimes on pages of their own, sometimes in the midst of words that are written around the edges of the artwork - and you have an incredible and extremely unique diary. Personally, I found it inspiring to read and have incorporated many of the elements into my own journal. (If you are looking for a way to break out of writers block, or artists block, I would seriously consider getting a copy of this book and mimicking the technique. It's very freeing and has a way of generating ideas.)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
intimate and enthralling,
By JuJuDollie "JuJuDollie" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
As someone who has tried to keep a diary (and failed) I was interested to see what an artist would come up with and loving Frida Kahlo's work I thought I would get this. This buy was perfect for me and very inspiring.If you are a diarist or would like to be one, Frida's diary might inspire you to write in a free style adding your art or clippings from papers etc. If you are an artist/crafter it might help you to organise your note books. I now keeping a notebook a bit like this with naration around my designs. Like her, the naration doesn't necessarily fit with the pictures however, when I go back, I have a clearer understanding of why I wanted to creat an item. Like the other reviewers have said you do have to flick back & forward as the English translations are at the back but I don't think that detracts from this. Ultimately this is a beautiful book which is great to flick through and take inspiration from.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Art Journaling in Mexico,
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This review is from: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
How wonderful to have such an insight into Frida's art, thoughts and feelings. How wonderful to see the freedom with which she pens her words and images. As someone who has always kept some form of journal, this was a treasure - to get to know someone's true spirit as they saw it. I just wonder if she would have wanted the world to see them - I hesitated a long time before buying. In the end I could not resist the temptation.
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