José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside
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Diane Miliotes; With a technical note by Rachel Freeman
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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 of the Dead)––reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In these graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas.
Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago’s impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this handsome book examines his work and places it in the larger context of Mexican printmaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With beautiful reproductions of Posada’s forceful and lively prints, as well as fascinating technical analyses of these works, the book is essential to anyone interested in the graphic arts of Latin America.
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 of the Dead)––reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In these graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas.
Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago’s impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this handsome book examines his work and places it in the larger context of Mexican printmaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With beautiful reproductions of Posada’s forceful and lively prints, as well as fascinating technical analyses of these works, the book is essential to anyone interested in the graphic arts of Latin America.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition Schedule:
The Art Institute of Chicago (June 24 – September 25, 2006, and October 7, 2006 – January 17, 2007)
Diane Miliotes, Research Associate at the Art Institute of Chicago and an independent curator, co-curated and co-edited José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927–1934. Rachel Freeman is Mellon Fellow in Paper Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Art Institute of Chicago (June 24 – September 25, 2006, and October 7, 2006 – January 17, 2007)
"Handsome. . . . Posada's place in the panoply of great masters is strengthened by this wonderful publication."—Umbrella Online
ISBN: 9780300121377
Publication Date: September 18, 2006
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Publication Date: September 18, 2006
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
40 pages, 9 1/2 x 8 5/8
15 b/w + 25 color illus.
15 b/w + 25 color illus.
