Sale 2683 - Lot 297
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Murillo, Gerardo [aka Dr. Atl] (1875-1964)
Las Artes Populares en Mexico.
Mexico City: Editorial Cultura, 1922.
Second edition, enlarged and enhanced with additional plates, two folio volumes; text printed in Spanish; illustrated titles in each, 134 mounted photographic plates and reproductions, many in color, a few hand-colored, with red woodcut borders; bound in half calf with marbled paper boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers (illustrated title in second volume trimmed closely at bottom; sporadic marginal dampstains, minor worming to the gutter of volume I and the lower corner of volume II; scuffing); 12 x 9 in.
Released one year after the first edition, Las Artes Populares is the best and most profusely illustrated catalogue of Mexican folk arts. It was published by the government in the wake of the Mexican Revolution to revitalize interest and focus on Indigenous art, eschewing Eurocentrism. The plates depict excellent examples of leatherwork, pottery, woodworking, printing, textiles, toys, and many other arts. The hand-colored plates feature examples of ceramics and are painted in brilliant hues. The second volume contains a black-and-white photograph of Emiliano Zapata on horseback, with the caption "Arquetipo de charro revolucionario."
