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Calaveras the Spanish word for skulls are produced every year for the Mexican Day of the Dead festival. This day of festivity sees prints, skeletal artefacts, toys, cakes and sweets sold on the streets and ritualistic offerings made to dead relatives. This collection of 22 large-format postcards released to coincide with two major exhibitions in London, brings together images that mix vitality with morbidity. Produced by the great Mexican printmakers Manuel Manilla and J.G.Posada these images include skeletons featured in everyday acts, such as drinking, flirting, preaching and working.
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- PublisherRedstone Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1870003578
- ISBN 13 9781870003575
- BindingCards
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages24
- IllustratorPosada
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Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Posada (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003760967
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Calaveras : Mexican prints for the Day of the Dead
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Posada (illustrator). First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description: 44 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm. Subject: All Souls' Day Mexico. Prints, Mexican. Skull in art. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 384666
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Calaveras : Mexican prints for the Day of the Dead
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ISBN 10: 1870003578
ISBN 13: 9781870003575
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Posada (illustrator). First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description: 44 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm. Subject: All Souls' Day Mexico. Prints, Mexican. Skull in art. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 384666
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Calaveras: Mexican Prints for the Day of the Dead (Postcards)
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ISBN 10: 1870003578
ISBN 13: 9781870003575
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Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Posada (illustrator). 1st Edition. Type: Book Unpaginated. Book of 22 postcards. 1st printing. Seller Inventory # 027604
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