Jose Guadalupe Posada And the Mexican Broadside/ Jose Guadalupe Posada Y La Hoja Volante Mexicana (English and Spanish Edition)

Bilingual (Spanish/English)José Guadalupe Posada (18511913), one of Mexicos most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsideswhose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day of the Dead)reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In these graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas.Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicagos impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this handsome book examines his work and places it in the larger context of Mexican printmaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With beautiful reproductions of Posadas for
Author: Miliotes, Diane

Publisher: Art Inst of Chicago

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0300121377

ISBN-13: 9780300121377