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Sculpture and Installations Day of the Dead art installation with a portrait of José Guadalupe Posada arm and arm with one of his calaveras (animated skeletons). This image is similar to Diego Rivera's portrait of Posada in Rivera's mural "Dream of a Sunday afternoon in Alameda Park." The installation also includes skulls, skeletons, and various other ex-votos. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Part of the Latino Boom Boom collection of popular culture images focusing on marketing to the Latino population in the United States in the 1980s.
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ark:/20775/bb0174074w
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Installations (visual works) Popular culture Skull Marketing Household shrines Human skeleton Votive offerings All Souls' Day Votive candles Mexican American art Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913
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