October 3,
2005
Schaefer offers insight on Kahlo
rofessor of Spanish Claudia Schaefer is part of a select group of scholars, artists writers, filmmakers, and historians invited to discuss Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who became one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation, at a recent conference held in London.
Schaefer, who chairs the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, presented a look at the global economy and the changing role of art using a series of slides to show how Kahlo has been appropriated and used by, among others, the U.S. government on a postage stamp, a women's knitting circle, a Che Guevara poster, a set of wall clocks, and book jackets.
Schaefer first became familiar with Kahlo's work while studying native artists and painters in Mexico. She focused on Kahlo for a chapter in her 1992 book Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico and has given talks on how American audiences have reacted to Kahlo's paintings. Learn more at www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2262.
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