{"id":73430,"date":"2018-12-29T01:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/29\/the-commodification-of-frida-kahlo-are-we-losing-the-artist-under-all-that-kitsch\/"},"modified":"2018-12-29T01:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:22:55","slug":"the-commodification-of-frida-kahlo-are-we-losing-the-artist-under-all-that-kitsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=73430","title":{"rendered":"The commodification of Frida Kahlo: are we losing the artist under all that kitsch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a new exhibition of Kahlo\u2019s photographs opens, Jenny Valentish looks at the merchandise bearing the artist\u2019s image and wonders if we\u2019ve missed the pointDangling from my ute\u2019s rearview mirror is a Frida Kahlo air freshener, its scent long since depleted. I suppose I thought hanging Kahlo\u2019s colourful visage in a utility vehicle seemed like a nice visual juxtaposition, or maybe even a gendered territorial pissing.Since I bought it a couple of years ago, Kahlo\u2019s face has run rampant through the retail world, licensed to clothing brands such as Mango and Princesse Tam-Tam, stationery makers Grupo Erik, porcelain company Lladr\u00f3, Flamingo Candles, giftware line Temerity Jones, and electronic accessories manufacturer Ecell. There\u2019s also a Barbie doll, from Mattel. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/dec\/29\/the-commodification-of-frida-kahlo-are-we-losing-the-artist-under-the-kitsch\" target=\"_blank\">The commodification of Frida Kahlo: are we losing the artist under all that kitsch?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a new exhibition of Kahlo\u2019s photographs opens, Jenny Valentish looks at the merchandise bearing the artist\u2019s image and wonders if we\u2019ve missed the pointDangling from my ute\u2019s rearview mirror is a Frida Kahlo air freshener, its scent long since depleted. I suppose I thought hanging Kahlo\u2019s colourful visage in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}