Posada
Subtitle: a century of skeletons
Edition: First edition.
Series: Biblioteca de ilustradores mexicanos (BIM) -- no. 16; Biblioteca de ilustradores mexicanos -- no. 16.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9788415118664
Subjects: In art; Mexican Prints; Skeleton; Printmakers
Description: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Posada's death, A Century of Skeletons collects nearly 1,000 reproductions of original prints, including dozens of engravings never before published. Over the last century, Posada's satirical illustrations with their signature "calaveras," or skeletons, have become synonymous with the imagery of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations.
Table of contents: title: José Guadalupe Posada : one hundred years of a better life  -- Juan Villoro; title: The tradition of the popular print in New Spain  -- Montserrat Galí Boadella; title: A portrait of the cartoonist as a young man : El Jicote and Posada's formative years  -- Rafael Barajas Durán, El Fisgon; title: The singularity of the Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano in Posada's work  -- Helia Bonilla and Marie Lecouvey; title: Posada's technical and aesthetic development  -- Mercurio López Casillas; title: Chronology and bibliography -- Mercurio López Casillas.