The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...
The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first wi...
Originally published in 1930, Posada: Monografia is a facsimile edition of the first monograph of the great Mexican illustrator and engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Reprinted to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his death, reproduces more than 400 of the most iconic prints from Posada's vast output, collected by Pablo O'Higgins from those that could be located and identified at the time. Posada and Manuel Manilla--a talented engraver who greatly influenced Posada--were the two artists of their day who best interpreted the lives and social attitudes of Mexican people....
Originally published in 1930, Posada: Monografia is a facsimile edition of the first monograph of the great Mexican illustrator and engraver Jo...
