Images of Death in Mexican Prints /ANGLAIS/ESPAGNOL - Couverture rigide

López Casillas, Mercurio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9685208891 ISBN 13 : 9789685208895

Editeur : Editorial RM Mexico, 1999

Synopsis

In this fascinating book, richly illustrated and talisman against ourtendency to take very seriously the Grim Reaper, Mercurio Lopez Casillas examines the tradition of representing death in the graphic arts. Through these pages we will move through the different faces with death has been presented in the course of the ages, from pre-Columbian to the comic pages of contemporaryMexican press.
Also go into two interesting perspectives have sometimes lived, one that invites the hearty laugh of popular taste and the press, another tragic, dark, attached to the European fashion, whichduring the Porfiriato preferred artists, writers and aristocrats. Of course, pay special attention to the playful skeletons of JoseGuadalupe Posada, Mexican art emblematic images. Julio Ruelas, Manilla, the engravers who worked for Arroyo Venegas and nineteenth-century cartoonists and their successors the Taller de Grafica Popular, are discussed in detail.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jose Guadalupe Posada's cavorting skeletons are for many people among the most emblematic images of Mexican art, representing a supposed mockery of and indifference to death that runs deep in Mexican culture. This delightful and fascinating book by Mercurio López Casillas follows the theme in the graphic arts from pre-Hispanic times to the comic pages of contemporary Mexican newspapers. López Casillas examines the long tradition of representing death and skeleton figures that leads up to the exemplary figure of Posada, and traces the influence of the great popular engraver in the work of twentieth-century artists. Readers of this richly illustrated book will be captivated by the early colonial examples of calaveras, or skeleton caricatures, and by the persistence of the theme of death in lesser-known artists such as the "decadent" Julio Ruelas. To be sure, the carefully documented essay by López Casillas also treats Posada, Manilla and the nineteenth-century caricaturists in detail, as well as other successors in the Taller de Gráfica Popular, such as the remarkable Leopoldo Méndez. This book is an effective preventative against our tendency to take the Grim Reaper too seriously.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editorial RM Mexico
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9685208891
• ISBN 13: 9789685208895
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible