Puebla’s ceramic tradition is an art form with historic ties to the the convent kitchens, building façades and the workshops - the spaces that form a world where reality and fantasy mingle, and the hands that produce, buy and sell are joined with the hands that paint their dreams onto clay pots. This issue offers a glimpse into a fascinating world of the Talavera pottery of Puebla.
Written by: Efraín Castro Morales, Leonor Cortina, Fernando Gamboa, Octavio Paz, José Luis Pérez de Salazar y Solana, Herbert Read, Beatriz Sánchez Navarro de Pintado, María de los Ángeles de las Vilas.
Bilingual edition (Spanish and English).