Calaveras de Posada

“Mexican” Day of the Dead, calaveras, dancing skeletons, dances macabre, Catrinas... The resurgence of representations of "joyful" Death is notable, and partly linked to the posthumous glory of the engraver José Guadalupe Posada. Faced with this recent craze, it is time to give some explanations succinct but precise on the differences between All Saints' Day, the 1st and 2nd November, Halloween... and explain the context of production of these images surprising. This little book presents for the first time, in small format, the wonderful series of calaveras by Posada, this genius engraver who, in the 1890s in Mexico, revolutionized the representation of the dead in art.