Mexican Postcards

Author : Carlos Monsivais
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916048
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Postcards written by Carlos Monsivais and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997-05-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio, boleros, and melodrama. Monsivais's chronicles are laconic and satirical, taking as a constant theme the conflicts between Mexican and North American culture and between modern and traditional ways of life.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539952
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Chihuahua Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534322
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Sonora Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s examines the urban landscapes of Mexican border cities through picture postcards. This volume aims to capture the evolution of Sonora border towns over time, and create a sense of visual "time travel" for the reader by relying on Arreola's personal collection of postcards"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542554
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Baja California Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Author : Carlos Monsiváis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Postcards written by Carlos Monsiváis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Rothenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781870003575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calaveras written by Julian Rothenstein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of postcard reproductions of Mexican prints created to celebrate the Day of the Dead, showing skeletons in everyday situations.

Author : Angela Villalba
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811853156
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Calendar Girls written by Angela Villalba and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly popular art form, the glamorous paintings of Mexican calendar girls have a long and fascinating historyas advertisements, enticements, and emblems of Mexican cultural heritage and pride. The result of years of research, this playful and informative book reproduces more than 150 vibrantly colorful calendar images, plus archival photographs and other materials that illuminate their creation. A fully bilingual text gives an overview of the calendars' social and cultural history, along with biographies of the talented artists who created them. Also including a foreword by the renowned Mexican cultural critic Carlos Monsivis, Mexican Calendar Girls presents this popular and delightful art as never before.

Author : Paul J. Vanderwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Fury written by Paul J. Vanderwood and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are particularly interested in the picture postcard as a source of historical documentation. This collection is thoroughly annotated and nicely produced.

Author : Frida Kahlo
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486405919
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Frida Kahlo Cards written by Frida Kahlo and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-12-23 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntingly beautiful reproductions of the great Mexican artist's Self-Portrait (1926), The Deceased Dimas (1937), Girl with Death Mask (1938), Self-Portrait with Monkeys (1943), Doña Rosita Morillo (1944), and Still Life with Parrot (1951).

Author : Jordan Sand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520280377
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Vernacular written by Jordan Sand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape. Scholarship to date has tended to view historicism in the postindustrial context as either a genuine response to loss, or as a cynical commodification of the past. The historical process of Tokyo’s historicization suggests other interpretations. Moving from the politics of the public square to the invention of neighborhood community, to oddities found and appropriated in the streets, to the consecration of everyday scenes and artifacts as heritage in museums, Tokyo Vernacular traces the rediscovery of the past—sometimes in unlikely forms—in a city with few traditional landmarks. Tokyo's rediscovered past was mobilized as part of a new politics of the everyday after the failure of mass politics in the 1960s. Rather than conceiving the city as national center and claiming public space as national citizens, the post-1960s generation came to value the local places and things that embodied the vernacular language of the city, and to seek what could be claimed as common property outside the spaces of corporate capitalism and the state.