Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)

Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)

USD $19.95 Emily Black [Writer] Published by-New York Review Books

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About the Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)

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.



Book cover image: Frida Kahlo, prosthetic limb. Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust.

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The price of "Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)" at Downtown Comics on Market Street is USD $19.95.

The publisher of "Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)" is New York Review Books.

The genres of "Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)" are Art - Criticism & Theory, Art - Women Artists, and Personal Memoirs.

"Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Hardcover Books.

The writer of "Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg (Hardcover Book)" is Emily Black.