[D66] Muerte! - Death in Mexican Popular Culture

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  Muerte!


        Death in Mexican Popular Culture


          Edited By Harvey Bennett Stafford


          Contributions From Diego Rivera, José Posada, Cuauhtémoc
          Medina & Lorna Scott Fox

How a culture approaches and depicts death says a lot about the way it 
faces life. In America, death is a fixture of pop culture, shown in 
fantasies that are violent but curiously detached from reality and moral 
lessons. In Mexico, death occupies a much different cultural space. 
/Muerte!/ explores the lurid history of Mexico’s fascination with death, 
starting with pre-Columbian mythological depictions of death as part of 
a constant cycle, to the Colonial period’s unhappy marriage of native 
views with Judeo-Christian fire and brimstone, to J.G. Posada’s 
remarkable turn-of-the-century engravings of death that were popular 
images in newspapers of the time. The author has organized a 
compellingly dark array of paintings, engravings, and photographs from 
the grisly but popular tabloids /Alarma!, Peligro!/ and /Poliester,/ to 
name a few. Essays by Diego Rivera and Mexican scholars offer insights 
on the Day of the Dead, Catholic ritual, and the current lust for 
sensational gore.

This singular volume came about as the result of gringo fine artist 
Harvey Stafford’s exploration of Mexican tabloid culture. For this 
volume, Stafford accompanied tabloid photographers on their visual quest 
for death scenes, purchasing publication rights to dozens of photographs 
from the photographers themselves. The way Mexican tabloids affected his 
thoughts about death and his attitude towards art is revealed in 
Stafford’s introductory text.

/“With Muerte! Feral House once again takes you into the mayhemonic 
world where Walt Disney fears to tread.”/
— /*Robert Williams*/

/“The stuff in Muerte! will really make you turn your lunch.”/
— /*While You Were Sleeping*/

/“Editor’s Choice: A magnificent investigation into murder, mayhem and 
massacre within Mexican pop culture and its cultic worship of death.”/
— *Dr. Anil Aggrawal*,*/Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology/*


            10 x 8 | 208 Pages | Heavily Illustrated | ISBN: 0-922915-59-8

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