Sunday, November 1, 2009

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!


Muerte en cruceta; by Lola Cueto, 1947


La bohemia de la muerte; anonymous, 1958


El crepusculo de la noche, in Tricolor no. 35; July-August 1924


El Hospital Juárez - (Ironia); by Carlos Neve, 1951


detail of Calaveras televisiosas todo por un hoyito; by Leopoldo Méndez and Mariana Yampolsky, 1949


Levantaos de sus fosas, calaveras, que aquí se halla el mayor de los troneras; by Manuel Manilla, 1971


Levantaos de sus fosas, calaveras, que aqui se halla el mayor de los troneras, by Manuel Manilla, 1904


from Veinte años de vida del Taller de Gráfica Popular; Andrea Gómez, 1957


by Julio Ruelas, 1903


from L'ABC no 15; by José Clemente Orozco, November, 1 1925


from Don Timorato no. 19; by Hector Ramírez, Ram, November 3 1944

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all images are from the stunning book La muerte en el impreso mexicano / Images of Death in Mexican Prints by Mercurio López Casillas [link]
for more prints see Doce Palabras excellent post 'Diálogo con los muertos' [link]
also see Morbid Anatonmy's 'La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte (The Astounding Life of Death)' post on Joaquin Bolaños [link]

2 comments:

joel. said...

Doce Palabras has also posted some ex-libris scans from the same book --> thttp://selvahernandez.blogspot.com/2009/11/imagenes-de-la-muerte.html

collectibles said...

Great work!!.. really very nice blog!.. thanks for sharing.. keep up good work...

 
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