Posada's Calaveras
ポサダのカラベラ / 1880s–1913 / Style / Popular Prints
The skeleton satires Posada engraved for Mexican broadsides: dressed-up calaveras laughing at class and death alike. La Catrina became a national icon of the Day of the Dead and Mexican graphics.
Personified skeletons / Rough zinc-etched lines / Sharing the sheet with broadside type / Satire that laughs at death
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- Further study
- José Guadalupe Posada / the Vanegas Arroyo press / Rivera's rediscovery