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La Familia Linares - Visiting the Birthplace of Mexico’s City’s Cartonería Tradition

05/24/2018

Anybody even vaguely familiar with Mexican folk art knows about the Linares family and their paterfamilias, Pedro Linares, who invented a new folk art form in the 1930’s which has been imprinted on Mexican popular arts ever since.
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