[I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review]
I received this beautiful finished copy of Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist by Celia Stahr (released 3.3.20) months ago and couldn't wait to read it, but 2020 got off to a rocky start and just kept crumbling. I didn't want this to become one of those books that gets passed over, so better late than never!
I read Hayden Herrera's biography of Frida Kahlo after I was first exposed to Kahlo's art in a college art appreciation class. I was instantly obsessed with Kahlo's art and I was searching for any information about her. I poured over art books at the library, looking for her work and was so excited to find her biography (This was early 2000s so I didn't have the endless online access that is available today.)
I would recommend this release, Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist by Celia Stahr, as an accompanying text to Herrera's biography which spans her entire life in great detail. Stahr's book focuses on the three years Kahlo spent in the United States (Gringolandia) in the early 1930s.
Publisher's Summary:
"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. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit."
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