Posada's Popular Mexican Prints

Posada's Popular Mexican Prints PDF Author: José Posada
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486133877
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 181

Book Description
273 great 19th-century woodcuts: crimes, miracles, skeletons, ads, portraits, news cuts. Table of contents includes Calaveras; Disasters; National Events; Religion and Miracles; Don Chepito Marihuano; Chapbook Covers; Chapbook Illustrations; and Everyday Life.

Posada's Broadsheets

Posada's Broadsheets PDF Author: Patrick Frank
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Jose Guadalupe Posada is one of the most important graphic artists of modern Mexico. This book offers a close examination of his extensive broadsheet work in its original context: the murders, disasters, revolts, and popular heroes that engaged the attention of the public in Mexico City in the declining years of Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship. Patrick Frank analyzes the sources of Posada's style in Mexican and European prints and cartoons and shows how he altered them to fill his illustrations with vigor and life. Frank shows that Posada's outlook was that of the working class and that he depicted the stories of his day from a vantage point belonging neither to the defenders of the regime nor to its organized opposition. This book brings fresh insights to the work of a major figure in Mexican art history.

Posada's Mexico

Posada's Mexico PDF Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Washington : Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : es
Pages : 330

Book Description

Funny Bones

Funny Bones PDF Author: Duncan Tonatiuh
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613128479
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras—skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities—came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852–1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons, much to the amusement of the local population but not the politicians. He continued to draw cartoons throughout much of his life, but he is best known today for his calavera drawings. They have become synonymous with Mexico’s Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival. Juxtaposing his own art with that of Lupe’s, author Duncan Tonatiuh brings to light the remarkable life and work of a man whose art is beloved by many but whose name has remained in obscurity. The book includes an author’s note, bibliography, glossary, and index.

The Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead PDF Author: Jean Moss
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486480267
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Presents a collection of historical engravings depicting costumed skeletons representing the Mexican celebration of of Dia de los Muertos.

Nine Days to Christmas

Nine Days to Christmas PDF Author: Marie Hall Ets
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486815323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

The Night of Las Posadas

The Night of Las Posadas PDF Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698119010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Tomie dePaola's glorious paintings are as luminous as the farolitos that light up on the Plaza in Santa Fe for the procession of Las Posadas, the tradition in which Mary and Joseph go from door to door seeking shelter at the inn on Christmas Eve.This year Sister Angie, who is always in charge of the clebration, has to stay home with the flu, and Lupe and Roberto, who are to play Mary and Joseph, get caught in a snowstorm. But a man and a woman no one knows arrive in time to take their place in the procession and then mysteriously disappear at the end before they can be thanked.That night we witness a Christian miracle, for when Sister Angie goes to the cathedral and kneels before the statue of Mary and Jospeh, wet footprints from the snow lead up to the statue.
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