Academic Year 2007-2008
Event Title
Truth, Power, and the Mexican Cult of Death: The Life and Art of Frida Kahlo
Disciplines
Fine Arts | Latin American History
Description
In this lecture, Brodman explored Frida Kahlo’s search for identity and immortality, as well as that aspect of the collective Mexican psyche with which Frida most identified, and through which she strove to discover her own truths and power—the Mexican cult of death.
COinS
Truth, Power, and the Mexican Cult of Death: The Life and Art of Frida Kahlo
In this lecture, Brodman explored Frida Kahlo’s search for identity and immortality, as well as that aspect of the collective Mexican psyche with which Frida most identified, and through which she strove to discover her own truths and power—the Mexican cult of death.