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...neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with the imagery of sensational violence...
...Artist. Posada was born in 1852, of peasant stock, in Aguascalientes, Mexican provincial capital. Largely self-taught, he went to work in Mexico City in the late 1880s. Porfirio Diaz was ruling Mexico then as a dictator. The San Carlos Academy of Art, near Posada's workshop, was teaching a decadent, imported style to young artists. Posada ignored the Academy, attacked the Diaz regime with vitriolic cartoons. Among his admirers were today's top-ranking Mexican artists, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, young students of the time whose work was strongly influenced by his. (Orozco: "Posada...
...first horses ever brought to America (by Cortés in 1519), Mexicans have always preferred bullfighting. In the '80s, when racing reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., Mexicans caught the fever for a while. Mexico City's Condesa race track, which flourished under President Porfirio Diaz, had the pomp of England's royal Ascot...
...road to Ellis paved with good intentions," gurgled the Sage of the Age as he downed the Antaya bottle of Brewster get tight, his spirits growing Dampier and Dampier. "Cummings," he yelled at the door. "You may get a Hanover too. Diaz mean to Sayres that Lewis still sober...
...DAVILA DIAZ...