Monografia: Las Obras de José Guadalupe Posada Grabador Mexicano

Mexico: Mexican Folkways, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Ex-library with spine label, embossed stamp to endpaper, call number written on endpaper, stamp to rear endpaper, small paperlift from something being removed from rear pastedown. Spine worn and hinges cracked, pages more or less uniformly browned, pages a bit fragile, a few with small tears and chipping at edges and in gutter, a few small wormtrails in the gutter, two pages with long repaired tears but not loss. 208pp, index

AN important collection, the beginning of Posada's rise in reputation from a beloved and ubiquitous engraver, to an artist inextricably (truncated) linked to Mexicanness. Rivera, who would repurpose Posada's Catrina in one of his murals almost two decades later, wrote the laudatory intro (in Spanish with English en face) "Posada, as great as Goya or Callot, an inexhaustible and rich creator, produced as copiously as a seething spring. Posada, interpreter of the sorrows, the happiness, and the anguished aspirations of the Mexican people, made more than fifteen thousand engravings. So the publisher, Vanegas Arroyo, assures us." Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 048683. (Inventory #: 048683)