Images of Death in Mexican Prints 9789685208895

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Название: Images of Death in Mexican Prints
ISBN: 9789685208895
Издательство: Editorial RM
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ISBN-10: 9685208891
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 255
Вес: 1.86 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2009
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 1000 illustrations
Размер: 33.53 x 22.86 x 3.05 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Over the past two centuries, Mexican culture has kept up a unique dialogue with the fact of death, rather than defying it as most contemporary cultures are wont to do. Today, Mexico even boasts a Museum of Death (in Aguascalientes), filled with pre-Columbian sculpture and pottery, reproductions of ancient Indian codices depicting human sacrifices, colonial-era artworks, skeletons, artisans toys and works by the countless Modern artists who have treated the theme. It is, of course, in Mexicos arts that the blend of respect and irreverence for death and the afterlife is made most clear. Here, Mercurio L pez Casillas, expert on nineteenth-century Mexican graphic art and the author of studies of Jos Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla, surveys the subject from pre-Hispanic times to the comic pages of contemporary Mexican newspapers. L pez Casillas examines the long tradition of representing death and skeleton figures that leads up to Posada, and traces the influence of this great popular engraver in the work of many other twentieth-century artists, including those of the Taller de Gr fica Popular workshop, like Leopoldo M ndez. Readers of this richly illustrated book will also be fascinated by early colonial examples of calaveras, or skeleton caricatures. Images of Death is a colorful and lively deterrent against our habitual inclination to take the Grim Reaper too seriously. For enthusiasts of Mexican folk art, underground comics, tattoo art, the occult and more.

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