The life and times of Frida Kahlo [videorecording (DVD)] / a production of Daylight Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with Latino Public Broadcasting ; a film by Amy Stechler.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Edition:
Full screen version.
Publisher:
PBS Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator, Rita Moreno ; voice of Frida, Lila Downs. Originally released by Daylight Films in 2004. Special features: interviews with Kahlo's students ; Spanish audio.
Summary:
Chronicles the life and art of the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Kahlo became an international sensation in the world of modern art and radical politics. Documents the career of the first modern Mexican painter to hang in the Louvre, and looks at her ambiguous relationship to her contemporaries and to avant-garde art, from Cubism to Surrealism to the Mexican Mural Movement. Combines Kahlo's artwork with photos, archival films and interviews.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.