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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to... (more)

I am Not This Body: The Pinhole Photographs of Barbara Ess

I am Not This Body: The Pinhole Photographs of Barbara Ess

by Barbara Ess, Michael Cunningham

"Barbara Ess makes subtly-toned photographs that are not so much reality as visionary versions of it. Blurry and distorted, they seem to coax their subjects from mysterious spaces." --Grace Glueck, The New York Times "Ess's images often have a dreamy subterranean quality--part wonder and part menace--as if culled directly from the subconscious." --Gregory Volk, ARTnews I Am Not This Body investigates... (more)

Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents

Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents

by Nicholas Ganz

From the author of the enormously successful Graffiti World comes this spectacular follow-up, celebrating the contributions of women to contemporary graffiti and street art. Female writers have always been in the vanguard of the graffiti movement, though often shunted to the sidelines by their male counterparts. This exhaustive volume places them front and center, featuring 1,000 full-color illustrations from... (more)

Juicy Mother

Gleefully thumbing its nose at a field typically dominated by straight white men, Juicy Mother is an alternative-to-alternative comics. This cartoon anthology features work by and about queers, women, and people of color. Showcasing work by such well-known cartoonists as Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), Howard Cruse (Wendel, Stuck Rubber Baby), Diane DiMassa (Hothead Paisan), Ariel Schrag ... (more)

Diary of Frida Kahlo (Abradale Books)

by Frida Kahlo

Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable Mexican artist. The 170-page journal contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams-many reflecting her stormy... (more)

Originals: American Women Artists

by Eleanor C. Munro

Updated to include new artists' voices of the 1990s: The unparalleled record of the contributions of women artists to American art of the twentieth century At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting portraits... (more)

Juicy Mother 2: How They Met (Juicy Mother 2)

Juicy Mother 2: How They Met (Juicy Mother 2)

A fiercely funny cartoon anthology by and about queers, women, and people of color, Juicy Mother, Number Two offers a true alternative to alternative comics, a genre dominated by straight white men. As a follow-up to the first critically acclaimed Juicy Mother anthology, this vibrant collection continues to give voice to those least represented in the comic world: uppity women, outspoken people of color, and... (more)

Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera

The biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, and an artist whose sensual vibrancy came from her experiences. Following Kahlo from her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, her crippling accident at eighteen and her tempestuous marriage to Diego Rivera.

Ann Hamilton

by Susan Stewart, Joan Simon

A 118-foot-long wall seems to weep as droplets of water ooze from thousands of tiny holes . . . 750,000 pennies form a vast copper mosaic . . . . Creating massive sensory environments that combine sound, text, video, photographs, books, and huge quantities of material substances, Ann Hamilton makes theatrical installations that have been praised as "evocative . . . powerfully disturbing . . . always... (more)

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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera

I am Not This Body: The Pinhole Photographs of Barbara Ess

by Barbara Ess, Michael Cunningham

Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents

by Nicholas Ganz

Juicy Mother

Diary of Frida Kahlo (Abradale Books)

by Frida Kahlo

Originals: American Women Artists

by Eleanor C. Munro

Juicy Mother 2: How They Met (Juicy Mother 2)

Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera

Ann Hamilton

by Susan Stewart, Joan Simon

Signed, Abiah Rose

by Diane Browning