Description
Jos 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 Daz'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. Posada's broadsheets detail many stories that were front-page news at the time and include a variety of colorful characters, among them Jess Negrete, a Mexican Robin Hood-type career criminal, as well as a man who killed his parents and ate his baby son. Posada also illustrated the early events of the Mexican Revolution. 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.
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