Calaveras: Mexican Prints for the Day of the Dead

Available for Pre-Order (Release date 1st Sept 2009)

Calaveras (Spanish for skulls) are produced every year for the Day of the Dead a day of festivity when prints, skeletal artefacts, toys, cakes and sweets are sold and ritualistic offerings made to dead relatives. The great Mexican printmakers Manuel Manilla (1830-1895) and J. G. Posada (1852-1913) made hundreds of Calaveras or Dances of Death which showed skeletons in everyday acts, working, drinking, dancing, preaching, fighting, flirting and riding bicycles and display an incomparable mixture of vitality and morbidity.

Published to coincide with the opening of two major exhibitions at the British Museum:
MOCTEZUMA: AZTEC RULER and REVOLUTION ON PAPER: Mexican Prints 1910-1960

ISBN 978 1870003 57 5

£9.95

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