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ISBN: HB: 9781781453414

GMC Group, Ammonite Press

June 2018

96 pp.

21x14.8 cm

colour illus.

HB:
£9,99
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Biographic: Kahlo

Great Lives in Graphic Form

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots.

Each Biographic title is designed to be as entertaining as it is informative. Timelines not only pinpoint significant dates, but set them in the context and culture of their times. Dynamic maps locate biographical events alongside other points of interest. Character traits are illuminated by visual comparisons.

Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes "The Two Fridas". What, perhaps, they don't know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting "Roots" holds the record for a Latin American artwork, having sold for $5.6 million in 2006; that her love letters sold for $137,000; that she married her husband twice; or that she arrived for her first solo exhibition in an ambulance".Biographic: Kahlo" casts a modern eye over her life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.

About the Author

Author Sophie Collins has worked as an editor and author for many years, and as the publisher at the Ivy Press developed a range of highly successful art and design titles. Consultant Editor Dr Diana Newall, studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and University College, University of London and has lectured for 12 years on a range of subjects in Art History.