Posada. Confession d'un squelette. Histoire de l’archéologie Miquel Barceló chose to forget

Miquel Barceló chose to forget the rites

and enjoyed depicting animals with subtlety and poetry

thus Victor Hugo sums up the fascination that the Orient exerted on the 19th century

professeur émérite de l’Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux-3) y a créé en 1976 le Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire de Recherches sur l’Imaginaire appliquées à la Littérature (LAPRIL) et la revue Eidôlon

Posada. Confession d'un squelette. Histoire de l’archéologie Miquel Barceló chose to forgetLike so many other artists thrown rather hastily into a common grave, Jos Guadalupe Posada (1852 1913) only achieved posterity after his death. Too busy engraving some twenty thousand drawings to find the time to write his own legend, it is therefore his skeleton that tells us from beyond the grave the artist he was during his lifetime. Life and death of the greatest of Mexican engravers: The most beautiful engravings of the Mexican master illustrate