The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

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Review “An intimate portrait of the artist and her time in the lively 1930s surrealist scene.” —New York Times Book Review“[A] captivating biography…a perceptive portrait of an artist finding herself and learning to love and paint again. Fans of Kahlo’s art and of the surrealist movement will want to give this thoughtful and illuminating work a look.” —Publishers Weekly“A breezy bit of art history about a 1939 affair between the author’s father and Frida Kahlo in Paris…the story is transportive and dreamy.” —Kirkus Reviews  “Incredibly lively and sensitive…a book that takes an important place in the bibliography of this modern Mexican heroine.” —Connaissance des Arts   “Superb…[Petitjean] enables us to discover the artistic Paris of the interwar period.” —La Presse de la Manche   “[Petitjean] paints a portrait as personal as it is perceptive of the intrepid Mexican [artist], while reviving the colors of the ebullient interwar art scene. Captivating.” —Paris Match Read more About the Author Marc Petitjean is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer. He has directed several documentaries, including From Hiroshima to Fukushima (2016), on Dr. Shuntaro Hida, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Trésor vivant, about a Japanese kimono painter; and Zones grises, on his own search for information about the life of his father, Michel Petitjean, after his death. Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than eighty books, including Véronique Olmi's Bakhita and Hervé Le Tellier's Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England. Read more

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