Product Description: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Posada’s death, A Century of Skeletons collects nearly 1,000 reproductions of original prints, including dozens of engravings never before published. Over the last century, Posada’s satirical illustrations with their signature "calaveras," or skeletons, have become synonymous with the imagery of Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations...read more

Product Description: From the Stanford University Libraries is the exhibition catalogue José Guadalupe Posada and the Taller de Gráfica Popular: Mexican Popular Prints. This show celebrated the work of two Mexican graphic art giants: Posada (1852-1913), perhaps best known for his calaveras (skeletal caricatures) that appear during the día de los muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations beginning each year on November 1, and artists of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP, Workshop for Popular Graphic Art), which formed in 1937...read more

Product Description: Because of the high quality and the quantity of his art, Jose Guadalupe Posada is the one Mexican printmaker who has acquired posthumous and international fame. Posada was at his peak at the turn of the 20th century, during the closing years of the Diaz dictatorship...read more

The award-winning Latin American author of the Memory of Fire trilogy presents a kaleidoscopic, trenchant look at the dichotomy that exists between first-world wealth, privileges, and power and third-world deprivation, helplessness, and torture, in a series of essays that include 'The Sacred Car,' 'The Impunity of Power,' 'The Right to Rave,' and 'How to Resist Useless Vices.' Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

'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/ (view table of contents)

Product Description: Hace cientotreinta anos, despues de visitar el pais de las maravillas, Alicia se metio en un espejo para descubrir el mundo al reves. Si Alicia renaciera en nuestros dias, no necesitaria atravesar ningun espejo: le bastaria con asomarse a la ventana...read more

Product Description: Hace cientotreinta anos, despues de visitar el pais de las maravillas, Alicia se metio en un espejo para descubrir el mundo al reves. Si Alicia renaciera en nuestros dias, no necesitaria atravesar ningun espejo: le bastaria con asomarse a la ventana...read more

Product Description: 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 famous broadsides that were distributed throughout the country...read more

Reproduces over two hundred and fifty of the late-nineteenth-century Mexican printmaker's broadside and popular book illustrations