Lourdes Grobet: Lucha Libre [Paperback]

Carlos Monsivais (Author), Alfonso Morales (Editor), Lourdes Grobet (Photographer), Carlos Rodriguez (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2008

Sexo y violencia--now available again in paperback! Take one part Mexi-Monster cinema, one part Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, throw in a little Zoro, the WWF and the knit-costume-wearing performance art collective Forcefield, and you come up with the raw, vivid, and psychologically unhinged world of Lucha Libre the sports-entertainment phenomenon that first swept Mexico and now the world. Photographer Lourdes Grobet's penentrating study of Mexican professional wrestling culture features more than 500 photographs of luchadores like Blue Demon, Santo, The Witch, Adorable Rub', El Solitario and Hurricane Ramirez, as well as pictures of their families, friends and fans--onstage, backstage and even at home. Lucha Libre also includes photographs of stickers, flyers, postcards, stills from Mexi-lucha-cinema, interviews with the wrestlers, essays and much, much more! In this comprehensive 20-year study, Grobet has put together the definitive look at Mexico's masked superstars. Viva la Lucha Libre! Now in its second printing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: D.A.P./Trilce (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933045051
• ISBN-13: 978-1933045054
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #660,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lucha Libre Es Muy Bueno, August 24, 2006

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Jason S. Walters "Secret Master" (Gerlach, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This book is a visually stunning, warmly heartfelt, and emotionally powerful pictorial history of Lucha Libre compiled by the genre's most talented and prolific photographer. Ms. Grobet can only be thought of as the high priestess of the "theater of headbutt theology," as she so amusingly puts it. Lucha Libre shows a side of wrestling life unavailable anywhere else. There are luchadoras feeding their babies, enmascarados helping their wives with the dishes, and space giants hanging out with their Ewoks -- to name but a few images.

Lucha Libre is also a surprisingly large and thick book. Although it has a "softback" cover, it is in every way a coffee table book suitable for impressing a houseguest... assuming that he can be impressed by a full color pictorial history of masked wrestling. It has captions in both Spanish as well as glorious, unpretentious Spanglish that are a genuine pleasure to read. It's only flaws are that it isn't indexed (a pet peeve of mine) and that it's binding is a bit weak. Still, for the price this book is an absolute steal.

You would have to be a no-account Rudo not to buy this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Historical Pictoral History..., May 14, 2007

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Bowie V. Ibarra "author of "Down the Road... (In the great republic of Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lourdes Grobet: Lucha Libre (Paperback)

An amazing collection of photos, stories, and history from the archives of the most noted lucha photographer ever... Lordes Grobet thrusts the reader into the world of lucha libre and immerses them in the moments that made history...

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THESE LUCHADORS WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS, July 5, 2006

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jectorhead "jake" (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lourdes Grobet: Lucha Libre (Paperback)

I purchased this book for research and I was not dissapointed. First of all the book is large, and at over 300 pages there's plenty of eye candy. A lot of the pictures have a photo journalist feel to them bringing you deeper into the world that is Mexican Wrestling. This book is worth every penny. Do purchase.