Casa Kahlo 9780847875573 Hardback

The first publication ofCasa Kahlo, Frida Kahlos private Mexico City family home and personal sanctuary, and its collections of her art, clothing, jewelry, and treasured keepsakes, the house has been opened to visitors for the first time in nearly 100 years.Casa Kahlooffers an intimate new portrait of Frida Kahlo through the lens of the Kahlo family home that stayed in the familys hands for nearly 100 years. Drawn from the memories, stories, and private archives of Fridas great nieces, the book reveals what Casa Kahlo meant to the now world-famous artist and cultural heroine. The Kahlo family home was the artists safe haven away from her volatile marriage, where the people who anchored herher parents, favorite sister, and beloved niecelived. Its where she brought friends and lovers away from the public life she lived in Casa Azul, where she taught legions of students in the homes lush courtyard, and where the artist herself lived for several years in the late 1940s. Rich with family anecdotes, early artwork, unpublished letters, documents, and vivid details of daily life in Coyoacn, this is not another retelling of the Frida myth, but a rare insider account from Fridas own family.Readers encounter Frida not only as an artist and icon, but as a daughter, mentor, teacher, political thinker, and fiercely loyal family member whose creative life was inseparable from the homes and people around her. With its blend of personal testimony, cultural history, and never-before-shared family perspectives,Casa Kahloreintroduces Frida Kahlo in a way that feels revelatory and profoundly human.Highlights include:Previously unpublished letters and postcards exchanged with Kahlos sisters, parents, and extended familyThe restored interior of Casa Kahlo, including a mural believed to have been painted by Kahlo herselfNever-before-seen stills from a vivid family film shot just a few years before her deathPersonal belongings, jewelry, drawings, and select artworks, including Kahlos signature Indigenous clothing and handmade accessoriesHer extensive collection of ex-votos, dolls, and pre-Hispanic figurines which connected her to Mexicos rich ancestral heritageRare exhibition pamphlets and ephemera from Kahlos earliest shows in Mexico and the United States