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Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Rapp Black, Emily

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryBiographies GeneralGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1912559269
ISBN13: 9781912559268
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee.

At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world.

Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo's art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost.


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