Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1910

by Patrick L. Frank

Book Overview

Jos? Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), a Mexican graphic artist, lived during one of Mexico's most chaotic times. The graphic illustrations he produced for the "broadsheets," the tabloids of the day, distributed on the streets of Mexico City became icons of Revolutionary Mexico, portraying murder, suicides, robberies, and disasters endured by the citizens, especially the Mestizo, of Mexico City.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826319041
• ISBN13: 9780826319043
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.1"