Bibliograph

Frida Kahlo and my left leg, Emily Rapp Black

Type

Label

Frida Kahlo and my left leg, Emily Rapp Black

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frida Kahlo and my left leg

Oclc number

1197720265

Responsibility statement

Emily Rapp Black

Summary

At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo's art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost

Table Of Contents

The Crippled Body (Casa Azul) -- In the Glass Room (Casa Azul) -- Recovery Room (1978-86) -- Violation / Veneration -- Montaigne Visits Victoria's Secret -- Los Angelitos -- The Crippled Body (II) -- Dear Dr Frankenstein -- Letter from Spain -- The Temporary Mother -- The (Un)Mother -- The Viewing, London -- Leggie

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