Posada Y La Prensa Ilustrada
Published on occasion of the 1996 exhibition on Posada organized by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, presented at the Museo Nacional de Arte de Mexico. Very well documented. Includes more than 10 texts about various aspects of Posadas work printed in the Prensa Libre, a popular newspaper. Almost 200 illustrations, mostly b/w –Handbook of…
José Guadalupe Posada Y La Hoja Volante Mexicana
Bilingual (Spanish/English) José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913), one of Mexico’s most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsides––whose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day…