The Spanish audio-visual producers’ association (EGEDA) has undertaken the exceptional effort to publish the book Los carteles de cine de Enrique Herreros y otras obras importantes, with collaboration by the publisher EDAF. The publication once again demonstrates the multi-faceted figure of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977). In addition to his renowned inroads into oil painting, engraving and his transcendental contributions to humour, the reader can contemplate his role as a poster illustrator, mainly developed in connection with cinema, above all between 1931 and 1936 which, although not widely distributed, puts him among the top Spanish poster illustrators of the 2oth century. In its 460 pages, “Los carteles de cine de Enrique Herreros y otras obras importantes” shows various aspects of this multi-faceted professional, such as his film posters, his covers of the magazine La Codorniz, his thirty portraits of film stars of the period, Publisher in the magazine Cinegramas and highly-sought by collectors, and the frontages he created to show films shown at Madrid’s Palacio de la Musica. All of these Enrique Herreros originals are accompanied by fitting and deeply felt written observations by ninety "Magnificos", among whom include: Jaime de Armiñan, Rafael Azcona, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Alfredo Landa, Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Jose Luis Borau, Diego Galan, Jose Luis Garci, Carlos Boyero, Luis Maria Anson, Inocencio F. Arias, Antonio Burgos, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Jesus Franco, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, Antonio Isasi, Fernando Mendez Leite, Nati Mistral, Gil Parrondo, Rafael de Penagos, Gustavo P. Puig, Carmen Sevilla, Gonzalo Suarez and Alberto Vazquez Figueroa. EGEDA thus continues its pattern of promoting honoured Spanish film personalities (“Ana Mariscal, una cineasta pionera”; “Cesar Fernandez-Ardavin, cine y autoria”; “Rafael Gil, escritor de cine”; “De Bienvenido Mr Marshall! a Viridiana. Historia de Uninci, una productora cinematografica española bajo el franquismo”), revealing the distinct styles of Spanish filmmaking throughout the history of cinema. At the same time, the publisher EDAF is an expert on the subject of Herros because it has already published two of the three Don Quixotes illustrated by him and, a short time ago, put La Codorniz de Enrique Herreros into circulation, a biographical work which, in its 280 pages, captures his fascinating life in detail, as written by his son, also named Enrique.

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