El Dia de los Muertos in Art and Literature

Art

Jose Luis Posada: Prints and Drawings. New York: Center for Cuban Studies, 1977.
Boeckmann Center

Masuoka, Susan M. En Calavera: The Papier-Mache Art of the Linares Family. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1994.
Boeckmann Center NK8555.5.M64L562

Mural Painting of the Mexican Revolution, 1921-1960. Mexico: Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana, 1960.
Includes grand mural by Diego Rivera, entitled "Feast of the Day of the Dead," (located in the Ministry of Public Education in Mexico City). Mural is on page 93.

Go to Posada for a selection of illustrations done by the major Mexican artist of the Day of the Dead, Jose Guadalupe Posada.

Literature

Tinker, Edward Laroque. Corridos & Calaveras. Austin: U of Texas Pr, 1961.
Boeckmann Center

Videos and Films


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