{"title":"Andrea Kettenmann","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrea Kettenmann's works delve into the vibrant world of arts and culture, offering insightful explorations of iconic artists and their creative journeys. With a keen eye for detail, her books illuminate both the personal and artistic dimensions that shape a creator's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly crafted narratives that blend scholarship with accessible storytelling, inviting a deeper appreciation of art and its enduring impact on society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"frida-kahlo-by-andrea-kettenmann-9783836500852","title":"Frida Kahlo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe arresting pictures of \u003cem\u003eFrida Kahlo\u003c\/em\u003e (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage, and childlessness, she \u003cb\u003etransformed the afflictions into revolutionary art\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a \u003cb\u003ehybrid real-surreal language of living\u003c\/b\u003e: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils, and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the \u003cb\u003eCommunist political ideals\u003c\/b\u003e which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as \u003cb\u003e\"the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces the rich body of Kahlo's work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596440027372,"sku":"9783836500852","price":45.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836500852-frida-kahlo.jpg?v=1777925508"},{"product_id":"rivera-by-andrea-kettenmann-9783836504133","title":"Rivera","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiego Rivera (1886-1957)\u003c\/b\u003e is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin's Soviet Union, and liberator and traitor of Leon Trotsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVibrant, graphic, and often monumental, Rivera's paintings carry the same live political and passionate charge as his personal biography. Fusing European influences such as Cubism with a socialist ideology and an \u003cb\u003eexaltation of Mexico's indigenous and popular heritage\u003c\/b\u003e, he created a new iconography for art history and for his country. He became one of the most important figures in the \u003cb\u003eMexican mural movement\u003c\/b\u003e and won international acclaim for his public wall paintings, in which he presented a \u003cb\u003eutopian yet accessible vision of a post-revolutionary Mexico\u003c\/b\u003e. In 1931, Rivera was the \u003cb\u003esubject of MoMA's second ever monographic exhibition\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the \u003cb\u003eunique blend of influence and ideology\u003c\/b\u003e which secure Rivera's place as both a unique and a universal painter, bound to the particular turbulent experience of early 20th century Mexico, and yet preoccupied with subjects such as \u003cb\u003erevolution and class inequity\u003c\/b\u003e which continue to speak to us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598015807724,"sku":"9783836504133","price":45.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836504133-rivera.jpg?v=1777960529"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/andrea-kettenmann.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}