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Continue to explore the geography of genius in Desperately Seeking Frida, a pocket-sized hardcover guide that catalogs and explores the most important locations in Frida Kahlo's life. Detailed maps show her movements around the world, while archival photographs of the artist and the spaces she inhabited bring her international journey to life. Quotes from contemporaries and Frida herself accompany historical and biographical details that give context to the maps and images.Fans will be thrilled by this in depth, lifetime-spanning tour of her global trajectory, from La Casa Azul in Coyoacán, Mexico, to New York City, San Francisco and Paris.Like the other titles in the series, Desperately Seeking Frida looks at a major cultural icon from a brandnew angle, providing context for her life, work, and legacy.

For someone who traveled as much as he did, it is a marvel thatAndy Warhol had time to make art. Desperately Seeking Warholtraces the artist's movements around the globe from internationalcultural hotspots like New York, Paris and Rome to lower-profile burgs such as Carbondale and Montauk - more wellknown now, partially as a result of Warhol's involvement.Relentless in the pursuit of new avenues to create and sell hiswork, Warhol set up shop in a dizzying variety of locales, workingfor and with other artists, musicians, controversial world leadersand more. Manhattan features heavily, with detailed mapsexploring Warhol's favorite hangouts across multiple decades.The maps and location profiles here form a fascinating pictureof a larger-than-life cultural icon whose energy few havebeen able to match since.