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treasureandtrash's review against another edition
5.0
Für mich war das Buch ein guter, grober Einstieg in das Werk und die Biographie Frida Kahlos. Die ausgeglichene Mischung aus biographischen Inhalten und der Analyse ihrer Werke im Kontext ihrer spannenden und bewegenden Biographie haben mir besonders viel Lesefreude bereitet.
mickeyangelvega's review against another edition
3.0
Good art, choices and explanations, but if you've read one art centered book about Frida Kahlo, you've read them all.
mickeyangelvega's review against another edition
4.0
Loved this book. Book selected for the bootubeathon to fulfill the book with someone on the cover. 4 stars because it was very quick and I wanted more in depth about he rife. 1 book down, 6 to go. Fulfilled requirement for a book with person on the cover.
operanerd's review against another edition
4.0
Four stars only because this book took me back to a period where I was infatuated with Kahlo and her work when I was 14 years old. Are you in joyed learning more about her life and the symbolism in her art, but I felt this book did not teach me as much as I wanted to learn. The chapters are quite short, and the writing style is a bit dry and choppy. It does quotes and passages from her letters and journal entries here and there, but most of it reads like history textbook. On top of that there was the choppy Dutch (translated from the original German) as well as typos and some linguistic mistakes that were distracting and came across as careless. So five stars for Frida, but three for the actual content.
celleuloid's review against another edition
2.25
Kahlo is an amazing woman, and I wanted to learn more about her, her life and her work. I feel incredibly drawn to her, as she is someone who suffered with pain and disability her whole life. as someone who is also disabled & has chronic pain, I can understand a small part of that. I'm always really moved by how she articulates the feeling of loneliness that comes with disability in her work.
Unfortunately, the low rating comes from the production of the book rather than Kahlo herself. I found the book incredibly repetitive. I understand that this could be that it is not meant to be read cover to cover, and the passages repeated under paintings are for people that may not read the captions of every image. However, I felt I really didn't learn anything new about Kahlo or her work and that the author just paraphrased the same 10 or so statements.
lordslaw's review against another edition
5.0
A blurb on the back jacket flap of Frida Kahlo: Pain and Passion, by The New York Times Book Review, states: "These seductive little books have slick production values, excellent illustrations, and smart texts. Each one is a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand."
Precisely.
In just a few hours of engaging reading of the text by Andrea Kettenmann (English translation by Karen Williams) and gazing upon and studying the copious illustrations, I've gone from knowing absolutely zero about Frida Kahlo to possessing solid, fundamental information about the artist, her life and her works. I discover that I'm a fan, finding her life and her work to be captivating, inspirational and motivational.
I will be seeking out other volumes in this Basic Art series by Taschen.
Precisely.
In just a few hours of engaging reading of the text by Andrea Kettenmann (English translation by Karen Williams) and gazing upon and studying the copious illustrations, I've gone from knowing absolutely zero about Frida Kahlo to possessing solid, fundamental information about the artist, her life and her works. I discover that I'm a fan, finding her life and her work to be captivating, inspirational and motivational.
I will be seeking out other volumes in this Basic Art series by Taschen.
floralfox's review against another edition
5.0
I liked this better than the book I read earlier this year (Frida & Diego) because it focused more on her (obviously) but I actually found that there was quite a bit of information in the first book that wasn't in the second book. However, Frida & Diego really lacked examples of her artwork, whereas here it was chalk full of it in beautiful, smooth, thick pages. I want to buy it because honestly cutting out some of that artwork and framing it would look beautiful.