Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair AUTH-3419320 /NPR All Things Considered/ with

/NPR All Things Considered/ with Robert Siegel

Beneath White Stars features Holly's narrative poetry about real people from the Holocaust whom she has known personally or whose stories she has taught

ISBN13: 9781542897693

and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us

which has grown again

Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair AUTH-3419320 /NPR All Things Considered/ withKahlo's iconic gender bending self portrait Neutral hues, an ill fitting man's suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo's (1907 54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940). Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo's. In the wake of a divorce from artist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns to her favorite genre, self portraiture, to express her deepest emotional