Frida Kahlo
A Contemporary Feminist Reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11240913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liza Bakewell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 165 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-9009 • E-ISSN: 1536-0334 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3346753 |
| OpenAlex | W2322914355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
presence in the Bay Area among artists of all media writers, performers, playwrights, painters. That is why it scheduled to show in its galleries during the summer of 1992 Pasidn por Frida, an exhibit on the legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Nevertheless, the museum's curators were completely taken by surprise when 1,500 peo'ple arrived at the exhibit's opening night. They had been even more surprised when, weeks earlier, two hundred people came to audition for a part in the opening night's drama during which five of Kahlo's self-portraits were to be recreated in tableau vivant. What came as no surprise, however, to anyone at the museum was this: not all the contestants were artists; not all were Mexican, Mexican-American, or even Latino. Nor were they all women.2 What is it about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, a woman born in 1907 and who died almost forty years ago (1954), that would draw such a response? What is it about Kahlo that has people from all over the world and of different nationalities, cultures, genders, and ages buying her biographies, traveling to see her portraits, recreating her
Linguistics · Reading (process · Sociology · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |