
Posada's Popular Mexican Prints
Jose Posada(Author)
Dover Publications Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 28. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-0-486-22854-9 (ISBN)
Description
Nearly 275 19th-century woodcuts by Mexico's most illustrious graphic artist. Created for publisher A. Vanegas Arroyo in Mexico City, the images commemorate all sorts of occasions, from disasters to political events, glorify popular heroes such as Zapata, and showcase Posada's famous calaveras, the lively skeletons of The Day of the Dead.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-486-22854-9 (9780486228549)
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Person
Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was Mexico's most illustrious graphic artist. For over forty years he worked tirelessly as an incorruptible and truly popular artist, illustrating cookbooks and fortune-telling books, collections of songs and riddles, periodicals and newspapers, children's books and novels, and most of all famous broadsides that were distributed throughout the country. After his death he was venerated by the artists of the new generation - Rivera, Orozco, and many others, who realized that he had both saved and renewed the art of engraving in Mexico, and incorporated much of Posada's imagery into their own work.
Content
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Calaveras
Disasters
National Events
Religion and Miracles
Don Chepito Marihuano
Chapbook Covers
Chapbook Illustrations
Everyday Life
Miscellaneous
Commentary on the Illustrations
Brief Bibliography
Calaveras
Disasters
National Events
Religion and Miracles
Don Chepito Marihuano
Chapbook Covers
Chapbook Illustrations
Everyday Life
Miscellaneous
Commentary on the Illustrations
Brief Bibliography