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Lotería Huasteca presents 54 striking woodblock prints alongside text that provides insight into the traditional art, music, food, ritual and dance of the Huasteca region of Eastern Mexico. Home to an ethnically and linguistically diverse population, the Huasteca region of Eastern Mexico defies geographic and political boundaries and is instead known for its kaleidoscope of indigenous cultures rich in traditional art, music and dance. Dempster’s words and images provide a fascinating mix of cultural reference, music history and artwork, which together form an educational game that imparts a tantalizing taste of the vibrant and diverse world of the Huasteca.
Click here to order a copy Review of Lotería Huasteca by Anna Call - Foreword Reviews "It is impossible to look at these prints and not be drawn in, desirous for more. Footnoted and lovingly researched, Lotería Huasteca is a beautiful combination of the author’s lived experience in eastern Mexico, his emotional impression of the Huasteca region, and his zealous self-education about the roots of the culture he celebrates. This is celebration sincere and genuine, an appreciation by an artist whose love for his art and for his subject shines through every print." Read the complete review Review of Lotería Huasteca by Raul da Gama - World Music Report "In this book Dempster tells the story of his journey to La Huasteca in the form of a ‘loteria’ board – with 54 prints hauntingly cut out of wood and printed for the first time in this superb book. Salamanders and crocodiles vie for attention with gods and goddesses’ folk tales and musical forms. Each is an image frozen in a one-of-a-kind woodblock print with an accompanying text that explains the origins of a tale native to the region and the oral history of the region is revealed before our eyes. The images are primordial made in strokes of the knife that move with visceral energy across the geometrically-shaped woodblock." Read the complete review |
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