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José Guadalupe Posada's Engravings of Unusual Births (Ca. 1880–1910)
Engravings of unusual births by an artist best known for his joyous skeletons.
He extended his iconic graphic style in all directions: capturing national events and everyday life, designing chapbook covers, and illustrating stories, advertisements, and more. These reports, unlike those of the Old World, did not just betray “loathing or freak show curiosity” (although there was certainly some of that too), but also “wonder, affection, and pride.” Pride, that is, in the colonial state’s scientific productions (unusual births were opportunities for medical study) and in “New Spain’s prodigious fertility”. The visual language Posada developed was a key inspiration for later generations of Mexican artists, including Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco — so too was his political activism.
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