| Loteria Jarocha: Linoleum Prints Contributor(s): Dempster, Alec |
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ISBN: 0889843627 ISBN-13: 9780889843622 Publisher: Porcupine's Quill OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Folk & Outsider Art - Art | Prints - Crafts & Hobbies | Printmaking & Stamping |
| Dewey: 769.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (0.55 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Loter?a Jarocha assembles a series of linoleum-block prints created by Mexican-Canadian artist Alec Dempster after his return to his native Mexico in the mid-1990s. Discovering a lively genre of folk music from the Veracruz region, Dempster subsequently devoted himself to documenting his heritage with printmaking. The result is Loter?a Jarocha, a collection of expressive images which catalogue Dempster's encounter with the vibrant son jarocho culture of his birthplace. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dempster, Alec: - Alec Dempster was born in Mexico City in 1971 but moved to Toronto as a child. In 1995 he moved back to Mexico and settled in Xalapa, Veracruz, where his relief prints eventually became infused with the local tradition of son jarocho music. Alec's conversations with rural musicians, presented along with thirty linoleum portraits, have been published recently as Faces and Voices of Son Jarocho. He has produced six CDs of son jarocho recorded in the field but is perhaps best known |