Arteaga, Agustín, Luis-Martin Lozano and William Robinson, eds. Diego Rivera, Art and Revolution. Mexico City: INBA / Landucci Editores, 1999. exhibition catalogue with informative article and illustrations of the California murals including “The Making of a Fresco.”
Ashton, Dore. “Mexican Art of the Twentieth Century,” Paz, Octavio. Mexico, Splendors of Thirty Centuries. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.
Billeter. “World of Truth.” The World of Frida Kahlo. Ed. Erika Billeter. University of Washington Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1993. 10- 22. attempts to explain Frida Kahlo’s fascination.
Reiman, Karen Cordero. “Constructing a Modern Mexican Art, 1910- 1940,” South of the Border (James Oles. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
de Larrea, Irene Herner. “Frida Kahlo: My Birth.” Ed. Erika Billeter. University of Washington Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1993. 67- 70. essay on “My Birth,” Kahlo’s 1932 painting.
Downs, Linda. “Introduction.” Diego Rivera, A Retrospective. Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts in associations with New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. exhibition catalogue, lavishly illustrated with informative essays.
Helms, Cynthia Newman., ed. Diego Rivera, A Retrospective. Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts in associations with New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. exhibition catalogue with essays and photographs, contains outstanding photograph of “The Making of a Fresco” and useful diagrams showing who’s who in the murals.
Herrera, Hayden. Frida, A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1983. extensive biography.
---. Frida Kahlo, The Paintings. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. accompanies the biography and contains excellent photographs of Kahlo’s paintings.
Hurlburt, Laurance P. “Diego Rivera (1886- 1957): A Chronology of His Art, Life and Times.” Diego Rivera, A Retrospective. Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts in associations with New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. useful, detailed chronology in exhibition catalogue.
Kahlo, Frida. The Diary of Frida Kahlo, An Intimate Self-Portrait. Commentary Sarah M. Lowe. New York: Harry A Abrams, Inc. in association with La Vaca Independiente S.A. de C. V., Mexico, 1995. facsimile edition of Kahlo’s diary with essay, translation and extensive, page by page commentary.
Karlstrom, Paul J. “Rivera, Mexico and Modernism in California Art.” Diego Rivera, Art and Revolution. Mexico City: INBA / Landucci Editores, 1999. see Helms.
Kimmelman, Michael. “For a Chameleon of Modernism, Years of Groping.” New York Times. March 21, 1999, p. 41. contemporaneous review of exhibition.
Miller, Mary Ellen. The Art of Mesoamerica from the Olmec to Aztec. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd. , 1986. very useful and readable text giving background information and illustrations on ancient Mexico.
Paz, Octavio. Mexico, Splendors of Thirty Centuries. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. exhibition catalogue, comprehensive survey and illustrations.
Pierce, Constance. “Visual Journal: Imaging the Interior,” Yale University, March 6, 13, 20, 27, 1999. workshop series attended by the author in which the process of making a visual journal was taught.
Poniatowska, Elena. “Frida Kahlo’s Blue House.” Ed. Erika Billeter. University of Washington Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1993. 23- 30. describes Kahlo’s house and its contents, revealing of the artist.
Reiman, Karen Cordero. “Constructing a Modern Mexican Art, 1910- 1940.” South of the Border. James Oles. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. useful essay examining the evolution of Mexican mural art.
Sayer, Chloé, ed. Mexico: The Day of the Dead. Boston: Shambhala Redstone Editions, 1993. photographs, illustrations, and essays about the holiday.
Stellweg, Carla. Frida Kahlo, the Camera Seduced. London: Chatto and Windus, 1992. extensive collection of photographs made of Kahlo, interesting to compare to the paintings.
Tibol, Raquel. Frida Kahlo, An Open Life. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, translation 1993, Editorial Oasis, 1983. biography.
Toneyama, Kojin. The Popular Arts of Mexico. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill/ Heibonsha, 1974. lavishly illustrated, oversized book of Mexican folk arts.
Wyman, Carolyn. “Spirited Works.” New Haven Register .March 15, 1999, p. B 5. article about Constance Pierce, artist in residence at Yale and her visual journal course.
Zamora, Martha. Frida Kahlo, the Brush of Anguish. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. biography.
