This 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.

Spanish collection.

The blue house on Londres street --Childhood in Coyoacan -- The National Preparatory School -- Accident and aftermath -- The broken column -- Diego: the frog prince -- The elephant and the dove -- Newlywed: the Tehuana Frida -- Gringolandia -- Detroit: Henry Ford Hospital -- Revolutionaries in the Temple of Finance -- A few small nips -- Trotsky -- A painter in her own right -- This Pinchisimo Paris -- What the water gave me -- A necklace of thorns -- Remarriage -- Patrons, politics, public recognition -- The little deer -- Portraits of a marriage -- Naturaleza Viva: alive still life -- Homage to Frida Kahlo -- Night is falling in my life -- Viva la Vida.

Aiso Library Women's History month selection