Editor: Roberto Berdecio, Stanley AppelBaum
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Publication: 1996, Facsimile Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 156
Size: 210 x 280
Text: English
(Preface) 'José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was Mexico's most illustrious graphic artist. For over forty years he worked tirelessly as an incorruptible and truly popular artist, illustrating cookbooks and fortune-telling books, collections of songs and riddles, periodicals and newspapers, children's books and novels, and most of all the famous broadsides that were distributed throughout the country. After his death he was venerated by the artists of the new generation —Rivera, Orozco and many others, who realized that he had both saved and renewed the art of engraving in Mexico, and who incorporated much of his imagery into their own work. Here are close to three hundred of Posada's best engravings, all done for the printer and publisher A. Vanegas Arroyo in Mexico City...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges.
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