El Arte de la Familia Castillo / Echoes from the Womb of Clay
This is one of those perfect books for collectors of Mexican Folk Art.
Published in a very limited edition for the Castillo family workshop and never commercially distributed, El Arte de la Familia Castillo is a collector’s item as rare and handmade in spirit as the art it documents.
Alfonso Castillo Orta of Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla is one of the towering figures of Mexican folk art — a master ceramicist whose polychromatic Trees of Life, Day of the Dead figures, and monumental clay sculptures earned him the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes and exhibitions across Mexico, the United States, and Europe. This volume is his family’s story told in full: the workshop, the tradition, the dynasty.
Three essayists — Juan F. Macouzet, Ernesto Eduardo Figueroa, and Magdiel Pérez — explore the Castillo legacy through art history, philosophy, and cultural criticism. The full-color photography is breathtaking, doing justice to the saturated, intricate surfaces that make Castillo ceramics unmistakable.
for the Castillo family workshop and never commercially distributed, El Arte de la Familia Castillo is a collector’s item as rare and handmade in spirit as the art it documents.
Alfonso Castillo Orta of Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla is one of the towering figures of Mexican folk art — a master ceramicist whose polychromatic Trees of Life, Day of the Dead figures, and monumental clay sculptures earned him the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes and exhibitions across Mexico, the United States, and Europe. This volume is his family’s story told in full: the workshop, the tradition, the dynasty.
Three essayists ,Juan F. Macouzet, Ernesto Eduardo Figueroa, and Magdiel Pérez,explore the Castillo legacy through art history, philosophy, and cultural criticism. The full-color photography is breathtaking, doing justice to the saturated, intricate surfaces that make Castillo ceramics unmistakable.
