EPISODE · Mar 21, 2023 · 5 MIN
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
from Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment · host Columbus Reichel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Author: Hayden Herrera Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ''Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human.'' — San Francisco Chronicle 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Author: Hayden Herrera Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ''Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human.'' — San Francisco Chronicle 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.
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