Skeletons and Madonnas Lead Mexico’s Graphic Arts Revolution
Jugend codified a distinctly modern graphic style, and Simplicissimus translated it into graphic social commentary. Both signaled a rebellion of youth against court-sanctioned romanticism and dehumanizing industrialization.
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Up New York’s Sixth Avenue with its series of seven sculptures to Latin American leaders, culminating at Central Park with magnificent statues of Bolívar, Martí and San Martín. To Washington Square Park, where they will find the Italian revolutionary Garibaldi, while his more republican counterpart, Mazzini, resides along West Drive not very far fr
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