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<h1>Muerte!</h1>
<h4>Death in Mexican Popular Culture</h4>
<h5><span style="font-size:12px;">Edited By</span> Harvey Bennett
Stafford</h5>
<h5><span style="font-size:12px;">Contributions From</span> Diego
Rivera, José Posada, Cuauhtémoc Medina & Lorna Scott Fox</h5>
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<p>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. <em>Muerte!</em>
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 <em>Alarma!, Peligro!</em> and <em>Poliester,</em>
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>“With Muerte! Feral House once again takes you into the
mayhemonic world where Walt Disney fears to tread.”</em><br>
— <em><strong>Robert Williams</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“The stuff in Muerte! will really make you turn your
lunch.”</em><br>
— <em><strong>While You Were Sleeping</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“Editor’s Choice: A magnificent investigation into murder,
mayhem and massacre within Mexican pop culture and its cultic
worship of death.”</em><br>
— <strong>Dr. Anil Aggrawal</strong>,<strong> <em>Journal of
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology</em></strong></p>
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<h6 class="details">10 x 8 | 208 Pages | Heavily Illustrated | ISBN:
0-922915-59-8</h6>
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