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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
I'm sorry Ms. Kahlo, I thumbed through your diary.
Four stars because I havent decided on the morality of it.
Very interesting! All the pages were beautifully restored and I literally felt like I had stolen it from her bedroom. The translations in English were very helpful.
Again, I am still deciding on my morality. Every entertainer deserves a little privacy...
Four stars because I havent decided on the morality of it.
Very interesting! All the pages were beautifully restored and I literally felt like I had stolen it from her bedroom. The translations in English were very helpful.
Again, I am still deciding on my morality. Every entertainer deserves a little privacy...
I went into this knowing very little about Kahlo except for her self-portraits. I thought this was an interesting look into her mind and her concerns (cough, Diego, cough). It made me very sad when I read of the things she was struggling with. By the end of the diary, I really felt that I had an idea of her personality and her style. I want to learn more about her in the future.
Frida’s life and work is fascinating to me, so reading her diary felt very necessary. The way she writes is simple, sudden and still very captivating and emotional. I felt like I learned a lot about her life throughout the diary, which was what I wanted. I just wish that the explanation of the pages would immediately follow them, instead of being at the end, since I kept going back and forth in the book.
Wonderfully intimate and personal look into the life and thoughts of one of history's most impressive and mysterious women.
This book is an awesome concept and we should all feel privileged to get this kind of look into Frida Kahlo's innermost thoughts. Having access to her diary essentially gives us access to her mind.
I only gave it four stars because I didn't love the format. The entire diary makes up most of the book in full color and, obviously, in original Spanish. This was awesome, but then the translation and interpretation portion of it was printed after the journal with black and white thumbnails of each page. It would probably have been better (for an English-only speaker like myself - wish I could read/speak Spanish!) if each full page of the journal was immediately followed by the translation and interpretation. I think that might've made for a better flow.
This book is an awesome concept and we should all feel privileged to get this kind of look into Frida Kahlo's innermost thoughts. Having access to her diary essentially gives us access to her mind.
I only gave it four stars because I didn't love the format. The entire diary makes up most of the book in full color and, obviously, in original Spanish. This was awesome, but then the translation and interpretation portion of it was printed after the journal with black and white thumbnails of each page. It would probably have been better (for an English-only speaker like myself - wish I could read/speak Spanish!) if each full page of the journal was immediately followed by the translation and interpretation. I think that might've made for a better flow.
Amazing, so intimate, and fascinating. I was mesmerized reading Frida's private thoughts of pain, passion, art and love for Diego, and loved seeing her journal sketches, paintings and doodles.
There are no words to describe how important this book is to me. I regularly visit the pages of Frida Kahlo's diary for inspiration and deeper insight into my own life and perspective of the world. Some pages are heartbreaking and some are joyous, but it is all TRUE and that's the biggest teaching, here. I also learned to embrace the bleeding through of pages, when working in journals. "Messy" is inspiring and beautiful!
Lendo este diário pude entender porque alguns são relutantes em aceitar Kahlo como ícone feminista, o caso é que a relação dela com Diego Rivera beirava à patologia, quer dizer, o tipo de paixão que ela sentia e demonstrava por Diego são comuns em garotas de 20 anos e aqui ela estava por volta dos 40 e soa como uma dependência emocional particularmente doentia partindo de uma mulher adulta.
Por outro lado, tirando essa questão desconcertante, ela ainda é um ícone feminista por sua resiliência perante tantas intempéries da ordem física e emocional, e a partir de todo esse sofrimento ela soube transformá-lo em arte, esta imensamente bem representada neste diário que teve toda sua magnitude editorial preservada nessa linda edição brasileira.
Por outro lado, tirando essa questão desconcertante, ela ainda é um ícone feminista por sua resiliência perante tantas intempéries da ordem física e emocional, e a partir de todo esse sofrimento ela soube transformá-lo em arte, esta imensamente bem representada neste diário que teve toda sua magnitude editorial preservada nessa linda edição brasileira.
The first half of this book were Kahlo's entries in Spanish along with her paintings and drawings. The second half of the book were the translations and interpretations on these writings and drawings. Powerful and painful and deeply tragic.