中文简介：

本书图文并茂地探索了弗里达·卡洛（Frida Kahlo）的职业生涯，阐明了艺术家的生活和工作之间的联系。很少有画家像弗里达·卡洛那样享有盛名，并被流行文化所接受，这往往会损害她作为一个画家所取得的惊人成就。 在这本引人注目的书中，卡洛艺术的重要研究学者之一将目光投向了艺术家的技术和主题，通过卡洛画作的复制品，以及精心挑选的细节，揭露了身体和精神痛苦在创作过程中的作用、卡洛对欧洲传统的掌握和重塑，以及隐藏在她许多作品中的大量编码和隐喻元素的富有启发性的意见。 这项细致入微、制作精巧的研究对一位太容易被简化为单一叙事的艺术家进行了丰富而有价值的探索，同时赞颂了她的才华。

英文简介：

This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist's life and work.Few painters have been as celebrated and adopted into popular culture as Frida Kahlo—often to the detriment of her amazing achievements as a painter. In this striking volume, one of the world's foremost scholars on Kahlo's art looks past the hype to focus on the artist's technique and motifs. Reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, along with selected details, are accompanied by illuminating observations about the role of physical and mental suffering in the creative process, Kahlo's mastery and reinvention of European traditions, and the wealth of coded and metaphorical elements hidden in so much of her work. A rich and rewarding exploration of an artist all too easily reduced to a single narrative, this nuanced study is also an exquisitely produced celebration of Kahlo's genius.