How Long to Read Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo

How Long Does it Take to Read Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo by Professor Carole Maso

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Beauty is Convulsive is a biographical meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. In 1928, at twenty-one, she joined the Communist Party and came to know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, Mexico's most famous painter, was impressed by the force of Kahlo's personality and by the authenticity of her art, and the two soon married. Though they were devoted to each other, intermittent affairs on both sides, Frida's grief over her inability to bear a child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous. This prose poem is typical Maso--vigorous, daring, always original. She brings together parts of Kahlo's biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries with language that is often as erotic and colorful as Kahlo's paintings.:: "Maso's precise and poetic prose ... brims with emotion, imagination, intelligence, and beauty," Review of Contemporary Fiction:: ..". a supple, discerning, and haunting prose poem, a biographical meditation that elegantly charts Kahlo's epic resiliency, artistic daring, unrelenting suffering, soul-saving 'sense of the ridiculous, ' and glorious defiance. Maso's spare yet lyric tribute, a genuine communion, is a welcome antidote to the mawkishness and sensationalism that is starting to blur our appreciation for Kahlo's pioneering art and incandescent spirit," Booklist

How long is Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo?

Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo by Professor Carole Maso is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo aloud.

What Reading Level is Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo?

Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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