0258 Wading into Battle: Frida Kahlo, Surrealism, and the Gradivian Myth
The author investigates Frida Kahlo’s subversive response to the surrealist imaginary of the Woman-Child, brought to life in Wilhelm Jensen’s novella Gradiva (1901). The author retraces the Freudian roots of Gradiva’s popularity among the surrealists, and analyses Kahlo’s painting What the Water Gav...
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International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)
2022-02-01
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| Series: | RIHA Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/85590 |