Saltando matones / por Juan Mejía y Wilson Díaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mejía, Juan, artist.

Contributor:

Díaz, Wilson, 1963- artist.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Fotonovelas--Latin America.

Fotonovelas.

Collage--Themes, motives.

Collage.

Artists' books--Colombia--Specimens.

Artists' books.

Genre:

Collage (technique)

Artists' books -- Colombia -- 2020.

Physical Description:

209 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

[Bogotá] : Tangrama, [2020]

Summary:

In 1996 Juan Mejía and Wilson Díaz carried out a set of interventions on the covers of 3 photomagazines (also called fotonovelas): "Santo, El enmascarado de plata" (Mexico), "Kapax del Amazonas" (Colombia) and "Blue Demon" (Mexico). In them, Juan and Wilson inserted themselves into the logic of comics by combining photographs and illustrations of themselves. Saltando matones parodies the stereotypes of manly strength, compassion for female weakness, the difference between pain and pleasure, or the nature of the characters that circulated on the covers: thugs of all kinds, African spirits, yetis, mariachis, Nazis, secretaries, vampires, gorillas, water monsters, indigenous people of the Amazon (tarzans), transgenders, zombies, various deaths, etc.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789585937598

958593759X

OCLC:

1286683142