New Oracle or the Book of the Future (Nuevo Oraculo o sea el Libro del Porvenir)
Medium
Book with relief etching in red, one folded with letterpress in black, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
14.4 × 9.5 × 0.4 cm (5 11/16 × 3 3/4 × 3/16 in.)
Classification
book
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52372
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada · 1852–1913
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican printmaker and engraver who revolutionized popular art and created some of the most iconic images in Mexican culture. Working primarily with publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, he produced over 20,000 images during his career—inexpensive broadsheets sold for a penny on colored paper that made his art accessible to even the poorest workers. He transform...