Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of a 31-years-dead Mexican who has been called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican people." But in Mexico he has long been hailed as a prophet of revolution, ranked with Spain's Goya, France's Daumier...
...family marketing himself on the way home. He is infuriated if anyone suggests that his health is delicate. He has high blood pressure, but claims to enjoy it. He views most of his in-laws with tolerance, but would not live with any of his descendants for a prophet's ransom...
...claims that his tour has been a thumping success, stresses the fact that the greatest help came from Nelson Rockefeller's coordinators of inter-American affairs. Only the Mexican press attacked Siqueiros as a gangster and a fugitive from justice. Says the muralist resignedly: "No one is a prophet in his own land...
...make out the thread of history in the overhanging metaphors and the creeping vines of Da Cunha's philosophizing. Conselheiro's teachings soon led to open revolt, in which 6,000 Federal troops spent three months trying to advance 100 yards against a handful of the prophet's followers. Euclides da Cunha was an army engineer and newspaper correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge...
...There before them, a tangible reality, was a trench of the dead, plastered with blood and running with pus. It was something beyond their wildest imaginings." The last defenders died at dusk. The next day the last of Canudos' 5,200 houses were destroyed. Thirty years after the prophet appeared at Baía his head was cut off and taken back to the coast "where it was greeted by delirious multitudes with carnival...