Frida Kahlos bildspråk : ansikte, kropp & landskap - representation av nationell identitet

This thesis is about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and her works, with emphasis on her painted self-portraits. The objective is to place Frida Kahlo's pictorial production in relation to a place and time specific context and test the theory of Frida Kahlo's self-portraits as a project connected to a gene ral striving towards a new formulation of national identity.