{"product_id":"el-arte-de-la-familia-castillo","title":"The Art of the Castillo Family Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003ch2\u003eEl Arte de la Familia Castillo \/ Echoes from the Womb of Clay\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is one of those perfect books for collectors of Mexican Folk Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfonso 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfonso 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e40  Pages    \u003cbr\u003e2005                             \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiafolk.com\/collections\/books-magazines\"\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Magazines\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sandia Folk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48453682135289,"sku":null,"price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0245\/1069\/3451\/files\/IMG-5476.jpg?v=1779984991","url":"https:\/\/www.sandiafolk.com\/products\/el-arte-de-la-familia-castillo","provider":"Sandia Folk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}