Una vida rodante de cuentos

Número especial de la revista Urbes sobre la fundación de Guadalajara en su aniversario 475. Escriben Carlos Loza, Esteban Bojorquez, Alfonso Arias y Jorge Navarro. En la caricatura, Raymundo Silva.

Re-creates the journey of an extraordinary heroine through the twentieth century and the realities of life in the American spotlight, with the help of many of her never-before interviewed family and friends.

Carlos Alberto sintetiza una historia de vida cargada de sueños y esperanzas, dibujando por doquier la huella del paraíso perdido de un hombre que ve por encima de la estatura humana y desde los rincones más apartados del deseo, la angustia de un mundo a la deriva: una selva globalizada en los vericuetos del poder. Y es que, a diferencia de otros exiliados colombianos, la estancia de Jorge en México no ha sido cura para sus nostalgias, ni ha cortado los profundos y amorosos lazos que le unen con su adolorida patria, pero tampoco con su infancia. A ella regresó para nutrirse y esparcir su ...

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...