Mexican Postcards

Mexican Postcards
Author: Carlos Monsivais
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-05-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780860916048

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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.

Mexican Postcards

Mexican Postcards
Author: Carlos Monsiváis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1997
Genre: Mexico
ISBN:

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Postcards from the Chihuahua Border

Postcards from the Chihuahua Border
Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816539952

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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.

Postcards from the Sonora Border

Postcards from the Sonora Border
Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0816534322

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"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.

Postcards from the Baja California Border

Postcards from the Baja California Border
Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0816542554

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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.

Six Ancient Mexican Postcards

Six Ancient Mexican Postcards
Author: Zelia Nuttall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780486283616

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Selection of art from sacred pre-Columbian book teems with figures of kings, warriors, priests, sacrificial victims, and mysterious images.

Mexican Calendar Girls

Mexican Calendar Girls
Author: Angela Villalba
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2006-08-24
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780811853156

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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.

Border Fury

Border Fury
Author: Paul J. Vanderwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1988
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

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The authors are particularly interested in the picture postcard as a source of historical documentation. This collection is thoroughly annotated and nicely produced.

Mexican postcards

Mexican postcards
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Release: 19??
Genre: Mexico
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Pueblo Indians of New Mexico

Pueblo Indians of New Mexico
Author: Paul R. Nickens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738548364

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Beginning about 1900, tourism greatly increased in the American Southwest, chiefly a response to the combined promotional efforts of the Santa Fe Railway and the Fred Harvey Company. Postcard images of Southwestern Native Americans in particular became a mainstay of a widespread advertising campaign to promote the region to potential travelers. Postcards also quickly became popular with visitors as collectibles and for expedient communications with friends and family back home. In New Mexico, hundreds of published images portrayed the beauty of the Pueblo villages, as well as views of economic and domestic activities, arts and crafts, and religious aspects of the various Pueblo communities in the northern part of the state.