Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery 1890-1910
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Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery 1890-1910 Details
"Close examination of Posada's work in context, including shocking crimes, executions, folkloric subjects, bandits, the coming of the Revolution, sources of Posada's style, etc., which help in understanding his spontaneous working-class outlook"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Reviews
Patrick Frank superbly presents Posada's world, which is a haunting, roughly-printed portrayal of Mexico at the turn of the 20th Century. It is rare that a popular communication form so well captures a time and place, while transcending that form to a level of art -- and thankfully that is well conveyed here to current readers, incorporating not only visual but also literary art of the period to bring broadsheets to our eyes. Posada's work ranges from dark to humorous, illustrating an ubiquitous view of pre-revolution Mexican life, from urban existence to folkloric rural life. His images flourish with legendary bandits, prison executions, valientes, and supernatural entities from grinning pests to snarling horned iguanas. As Diego Rivera admiringly said, Posada was "an illustrator of legends." Frank has produced, with lavish illustrations, a fine work about a extraordinary chronicler of an era, and of the human condition.