How Long to Read Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada

How Long Does it Take to Read Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada by Alonso Ruiz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a book about how the artist José Guadalupe Posada saw the Mexican country of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His conception of Mexico was expressed through drawings of great vivacity, humorous and with doses of sarcasm. In this work there are more than 80 excellent engravings on different topics of national life, and a detailed description of each of them. Posada was a graphic chronicler, first of the Porfiriato and after the Mexican Revolution. With his drawings and skulls "Calaveras", he tells us the customs of the upper and lower classes of that Mexico of the past. The distinctive genre of his artwork is represented by skulls or "Calaveras", that is, those drawings of skulls and skeletons framed with humorous rhymes. Skeleton drawings adopt jocular and sarcastic poses. With those bones, Posada tells us that we are all dead under the living flesh. But the artist was not limited only to the "bony" characters, but also drew cartoons of real people. In his publications appear elegantly dressed men and women, as well as people in humble clothing, and even shows us characters in rags. The engraver also explored the field of journalistic information. His strokes were the illustration of the news: floods, comets in the sky, earthquakes... The crime tabloids exposed the bloody events, such as the murders and robberies that alarmed the country. The drawings of the Mexican Revolution show the former rebels of the regime, mounted on horseback and with their carbines; on the other hand, the dictatorship's soldiers appear fighting and firing against the guerrillas. José Guadalupe Posada was a pioneer of the Mexican nationalist movement; he had the desire to extract the most authentic from the country to show it with roughness and humor to all who wanted to contemplate it.

How long is Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada?

Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada by Alonso Ruiz is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada aloud.

What Reading Level is Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada?

Mexico Through the Eyes of José Guadalupe Posada is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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