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Frida Kahlo and my left leg / Emily Rapp Black.

by Rapp Black, Emily, author.

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Kendal, [England] : Notting Hill Editions, 2021.

Kahlo, Frida -- Criticism and interpretation.

Rapp Black, Emily.

Women amputees -- United States -- Biography.

9781912559268 (cloth : hardback) :

1912559269 (cloth : hardback)

146 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm

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.

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.

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