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Paperback Posada's Popular Mexican Prints Book

ISBN: B00AQ8SE8Q

ISBN13: 9780486228549

Posada's Popular Mexican Prints

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Book Overview

Jos 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...

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Many illustrations - Muchas ilustraciones.

Posada is known mainly by its illustrations of the death, in this book appears all its work and the illustrations of the death are only a 10% of the book, the others are illustrations of the daily life, critical policy and customs of the Mexico Posada's time. The quality of the paper and the encuadernación are not very luxurious, but he is agreed with the price. In Spanish: Posada es conocido principalmente por sus ilustraciones de la muerte, en este libro aparece toda su obra y las ilustraciones de la muerte son solo un 10% del libro, las demás son ilustraciones de la vida cotidiana, crítica política y costumbres de el México de la época de posada. La calidad del papel y la encuadernación no son muy lujosas, pero es acorde con el precio.

Comprehensive

The book is a comprehensive review of Posada's prints. The biographical information is straight forward and well informed.
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