Salomon Grimberg Boeken

Book by Kahlo, Frida, Grimberg, Salomon

Illustrated by more than 90 of her paintings as well as many rare black-and-white and color photographs. Salomon Crimberg's "Frida Kahlo includes an insightful biography of this fascinating and complex artist.

Frida Kahlo's extraordinary life has been well documented, but until now little has been known about the artist's thoughts on her internal and external reality. In "Song of Herself", Kahlo expert and child psychiatrist Salomon Grimberg introduces and contextualizes an intimate, deeply introspective interview that Kahlo gave towards the end of her life to her friend the psychologist Olga Campos for an unpublished book on the creative process. Kahlo comments directly and starkly as never before on her life, her loves and her art, and expresses her attitudes towards sexuality, her body, friendship, politics and death, among other personal concerns.The most revealing autobiographical text known on this singular woman, this startling interview is accompanied here by Campos' reflections on her relationship with Kahlo and a psychological assessment of Kahlo by Dr James Bridger Harris. The book is illustrated with selected photographs and works by Kahlo, including previously unseen and rarely seen drawings.

Frida Kahlo, with over 80 large-scale full-color plates, illustrates the full range of this vibrant artist's work, from the extraordinary series of self-portraits which she painted over more than 20 years, to those more disturbing and cerebral works which were hailed by her contemporaries as Surrealist. Art historian Frank Milner traces the potent mixture of personal history, cultural inheritance, political commitment and sheer self-conscious myth-making that permeates Kahlo's work, and argues that any attempt to subsume her painting within a particular tradition is doomed to a unique artistic phenomenon.

Zwischen 1920 und 1965 fotografierte der amerikanische Fotograf Nickolas Muray die Stars und Sternchen der amerikanischen Theater-, Tanz- und Filmgeschichte, darunter Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich und Marilyn Monroe, aber auch Berühmtheiten wie Claude Monet und Frida Kahlo – ein großartiges Fotobuch, das spannende Geschichten zu erzählen hat. In den USA zählt Nickolas Muray (1892–1965) zu den bedeutendsten Porträt- und Werbefotografen der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1913 ließ er sich in New York nieder, wo er schnell als Fotograf Fuß fasste. Für Magazine wie Vanity Fair, Vogue oder das Time Magazin fotografierte er weltbekannte Stars aus Tanz, Theater und Film. Bedingt durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise konzentrierte er sich seit den 1930er-Jahren auf Produktwerbung und publizierte 1931 das erste auf einer Farbfotografie basierende Zeitschriftencover. Der opulente Band präsentiert Murays faszinierendes Werk in mehr als 200 zumeist großformatigen Abbildungen und spannen den Texten, auch aus der Feder des Fotografen selbst.