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Graphic art has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Mexico. Visually striking, with bold lines and intricate details, Mexican graphic art is intensely evocative of the time and place in which it was created. Poverty and wealth, love and cruelty, and the poetry and hardships of everyday life are among the themes that emerge from the woodcut and linocut prints of Diego Rivera, Jos Guadalupe Posada, Leopoldo Mndez, and their contemporaries. This beautifully illustrated book - designed and produced in collaboration with Kunsthaus Zrich for an accompanying exhibition - offers an overview of the development of Mexican graphic art from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Vivid, full-color illustrations feature fifty key works from artists who were born or lived in Mexico, printed using a range of techniques.