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Manuel Manilla: Mexican Engraver
Mercurio Casillas, Manuel Manilla

Editorial Rm, 2007

MONOGRAFIA DE 598 ESTAMPAS DE MANUEL MANILLA GRABADOR MEXICANO/MONOGRAPH OF 598 PRINTS BY MANUEL MANILLA MEXICAN ENGRAVER. Con texto introductorio de/With Introductory text by Jean Charlot by López Casillas, Mercurio. Publisher Information: Editorial RM, México, 2005, b/w and color plates, facs., illus., chron., plan., bibl., color pict. wrps Lavishly illustrated compilation of the life production of graphic artist Manilla (b. México ...

Diego Rivera: Great Illustrator (Biblioteca de Ilustradores Mexicanos)
Raquel Tibol, Diego Rivera

Editorial RM, 2008

Best known for his epic mural production, Mexican artist Diego Rivera was also an important easel painter and--as this book eloquently demonstrates--an extraordinary illustrator. This volume takes a detailed and long-overdue look at this rich and significant facet of Rivera's immense oeuvre: the illustrations he contributed to books and periodical publications over the course of his long career. Accompanying the numerous reproductions is a long ...

Walking Dreams: Salvatore Ferragamo, 1898-1960
Mercedes Iturbe

Editorial RM, 2006

Walking Dreams explores the life and work of the legendary Italian shoe designer, an artist who revolutionized footwear by introducing new styles and innovative materials that called up associations with furniture, domestic objects and radical architecture. Ferragamo's work was always experimental, from cork wedges made from Italian wine-stoppers to stiletto heels, both of which he invented, to towering platforms in pressed and rounded layers, ...

Leon Ferrari: Works 1976-2008
Leon Ferrari

Editorial RM, 2008

Posada: Illustrator of Chapbooks (Library of Mexican Illustrators)
Mercurio Casillas, Jose Posada

Editorial RM, 2007

This book is a must-have for any design aficionado, featuring Jose Guadalupe Posada's amazing illustrations for "penny chapbooks," which were published in large numbers for the consumption of a growing public of literate but poorly educated Mexicans in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Frida by Frida, 2nd Expanded Edition

3 reviews
Frida Kahlo

Editorial RM, 2007

Wonderful book
I absolutely adore this work. I own all literature on Frida Khalo and this book is my favorite. For Frida Khalo fans , this book is an absolute must have in your collection

Sonora (BAD ISBN DNU)

Editorial RM, 2008

Known locally as the "witchcraft market," the Sonora Market in Mexico City undoubtedly has the cure for what ails you. According to pilotguides.com, Sonora has "rattlesnake skins, desiccated hummingbirds and dried fox skins as well as the live articles like iguanas, frogs and squirrels..." It houses what is arguably the highest concentration of shamans, santeros, voodoo and natural remedies in the world. Stalls are flooded with a seemingly ...

Frida Kahlo: National Homage 1907-2007

1 review
Salomon Grimberg, James Oles, ...

Editorial RM, 2008

A very well written book, but poorly illustrated.
This book is the catalogue for a huge exhibition held in 2007 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico organized as a celebration for the centennial of Frida Kahlo's birth. Self-proclaimed "the most important devoted to the artist in recent decades", the book starts with an introduction by Carlos Fuentes which can be read like a poetical biography of the artist, with vivid descriptions of the ...

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Polaroids

1 review
Colete Alvarez Urbajtel

Editorial RM, 2005

Bravo, Bravo!
Long one of Mexico's masters of photography, Manuel Alvarez Bravo's collection of poloroid images gives an intimate view of some private moments. In photography, many newcomers concentrate on buying the latest and greatest equipment to produce that 'perfect' image, rather than focus on visualization. In this book, the master photographer proves why it's the photographer not the camera that ...

Mexico: Stencil

2 reviews

Editorial RM, 2008

An Awesome Book
This book is full of pictures of actual Street stencils. While it doesn't give you any information of the pieces, it has plenty to offer. The quality of the photographs is great. It's a good book for any art collector. I wish there was some background information on these pieces or this art movement. I learned more about it on Amazon than I did from the book.

Jordi Labanda: Hey Day

7 reviews
Jordi Labanda

Editorial RM, 2003

Beautiful
An absolutely gorgeous coffee table book of Labanda's artwork. Outgoing, charming, luscious, a must have.

Miguel Covarrubias: 4 Visions
Eva Ayala, Juan Rafael Rivera, ...

Editorial RM, 2007

Mexican artist Miguel Couvarrubias (1904-1957) was a prolific illustrator, caricaturist, muralist, archeologist and anthropologist. Moving to New York in 1924, working for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, he was famous within months. A major participant in the Harlem Renaissance, he understood the cultural rediscovery of that time as expressed in the creative arts and folk arts. As a world traveler, his understanding that indigenous peoples were ...

Agustin Jimenez : Memoirs of the Avant-Garde
Jess Lerner, Elisa Lozano, ...

Editorial RM, 2008

Mexico City-born photographer Agustin Jimenez (1901-1974) was at the center of his country's flourishing avant-garde, which emerged in the 1920s when international photographers like Edward Weston and Tina Modotti began to travel extensively there and relationships between the local and foreign artists led to aesthetic breakthroughs on both sides. Jimenez is known for crafting an indigenous version of Romantic Pictorialism very akin to Weston's. ...

Biblioteca Vasconcelos Library
Felipe Garrido, Marco Bassols, ...

Editorial RM, 2007

The most important public works project of the decade in Mexico, the Biblioteca Vasconcelos, came out of the country's first international architecture competition in more than a century--the first since the never-finished Legislative Palace project in 1896. This introduction to the recently completed site offers a tour in color and black-and-white images, details of the Gabriel Orozco work built into the site, and architect Alberto Kalach's ...

Claudia Madrazo: 40 Spins

Editorial RM, 2008

The images collected in 40 Spins were captured by photographer Claudia Madrazo over a period of five years in many different parts of the world. Organized in 20 sequences, this collection of landscapes, portraits and images of objects constitutes the highly personal logbook of a wide-ranging visual adventure. More than simply a book of photographs, the volume is a personal diary, a collection of visions and perceptions by a vital and ...

Mexico/New York: Alvarez Bravo, Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans

1 review
Mercedes Iturbe, Roberto Tejada

Editorial RM, 2003

The Three Modernist Masters
The French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to Mexico as a member of an expedition that planned to work on the Pan-American Highway. When the project collapsed, Cartier-Bresson decided to stay on in Mexico where he became friends with the gifted Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In 1935, Mexico's principle art museum, El Palacio de Bellas Artes organized a show entitled, ...

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