Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. One of the key figures in Mexican revolutionary modern art, she was also a pioneer of the politics of gender, sexuality, an d feminism. This XXL monograph combines all of Kahlo''''''''s 152 paintings with rarely seen photographs, diary pages, letters, and an illustrated biography to form the most extensive study of her work and life to date.