With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. See search resultsfor this author Celia Stahr(Author), Frankie Corzo(Reader) 4. The artist herself died in 1954, and nearly all those who knew her have passed away. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit.įrida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist Audio CD MP3 Audio, Maby Celia Stahr (Author) Visit Amazons Celia Stahr Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Frida in America - by Celia Stahr (Hardcover) 16.

Frida in America by Celia Stahr