Frida Kahlo's Self-Mythology: Identity, Exoticism, and the Tate Modern Exhibition
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The article examines Frida Kahlo's complex identity, including her fabricated claim of Jewish heritage, her numerous Jewish lovers and associates, and how her self-mythologizing shaped her art and public persona. The piece explores Kahlo as a cultural phenomenon rather than focusing on her artistic development, set against the backdrop of the Tate Modern exhibition.
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· 3 pulledClaiming to be Jewish made her sound 'exotic,' whilst being a descendant of German Lutherans was, in comparison, bourgeois and stuffy.
She had numerous Jewish lovers, her doctor, Leo Eloesser, her art dealer, Julien Levy, and, most notably, the Marxist, Leon Trotsky.
So insistent was she that...
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