Carmelo Filardi

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Carmelo Filardi
Cover of Filardi's book
Born
Carmelo Filardi Cantisani[1]

November 25, 1900
Yauco, Puerto Rico
DiedDecember 7, 1989
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
NationalityAmerican
OccupationCartoonist
Known forcartoons published in El Mundo newspaper
ChildrenCarlos Filardi Antonmattei[2][3]
Parent(s)Vicente Filardi, Maria Cantisani
RelativesDomingo Filardi, Juan Bautista Filardi

Carmelo Filardi (1900–1989) was a Puerto Rican artist of Italian ancestry, was a cartoonists who had his work published in Puerto Rico's El Mundo newspaper starting in 1927. He was from Yauco, Puerto Rico[4] and his parents were born in Italy.[1] Filardi specialized in satire and journalistic criticism. To do this, he used depictions of average daily life in Puerto Rico to illustrate his thoughts. He was a caricaturist and his work is included in University of Puerto Rico collections.[5]

His first published cartoon in El Mundo was in 1927.[6] In 1947, he published a book called Un año de historia en caricaturas, which contained a selection of his works from 1946 to 1947.[7]

In 1971, he published a book called Una Época de historia en Caricaturas. The book contained a collection of his works from 1948-1963. Eliseo Combas Guerra, wrote the prologue, selected the cartoons and annotated the work for the book, which was published by Editorial Universitaria of the University of Puerto Rico.[8]

His cartoons which featured life and events about Puerto Rico include one when José Ferrer, a Puerto Rican actor won an Oscar.[9]

Filardi's works and cultural influences have been featured and discussed in numerous books, publications and national archives such as:

  • Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century by Magali Roy Féquière[2]
  • Harry S. Truman library & museum[10]
  • Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies(Vol. 20, Issue 1)[11]
  • Así es la vida (That's Life) by "Joaquín" Jack Delano[12]
  • Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático, 1950-1960 by Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo[13]
  • Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la crítica al desarrollismo muñocista 1950-1960 by Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo[14]
  • Recordando a Carmelo Filardi (Remembering Carmelo Filardi) by Helga I. Serrano[15]
  • Horizontes by S. Damary Burgos[16]
  • Abriendo Puertas by José Giovannetti[17]
  • Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination by Blanca Silvestrini-Pacheco and Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo[18]
  • Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: aproximación en tres movimientos by María Alejandra Aguilar-Dornelles[19]
  • Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico by Arturo Yépez[20]
  • Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira by Inter News Service[21]
  • El caso del señor Carmelo Filardi[22]
  • Luis Negrón López Rescatado por la historia by Héctor Luis Acevedo[23]
  • Salón de Humorismo | Exhibición 40/30[24]
  • DESTILANDO CAÑA: Resistência e rumclandestino na ilha de Porto Rico by José Manuel González Cruz[25]
  • Antología del olvido by Eugenio Ballou[26]

There is a Carmelo Filardi Medal award.[27]

Filardi is related to the family which built the Filardi House. His father was Vicente Filardi, the primary builder. His older brothers Juan Bautista and Domingo were also contributors.[17] The professional tennis player Alex Llompart Filardi is also related to Carmelo Filardi.[28]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "English: Carmelo Filardi Death Certificate". August 5, 2020 – via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. ^ a b Roy-Féquière, Magali (August 13, 2004). Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592132317 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Carlos Filardi Antonmattei Obituary - San Juan, PR". Dignity Memorial.
  4. ^ "Yauco, Puerto Rico". welcome.topuertorico.org.
  5. ^ "University of Puerto Rico".
  6. ^ Delano, Jack (1996). That's Life: Cartoons by "Joaquin" (in English and Spanish). University of Puerto Rico. p. 168. ISBN 08477-0247-2. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  7. ^ Filardi, Carmelo (August 13, 1947). Un año de historia en caricaturas: selección de las publicadas en El Mundo de mayo del 1946 a mayo de 1947. Impr. Venezuela. OCLC 11125677 – via Open WorldCat.
  8. ^ "English: Title page of Una época de historia en caricaturas". August 6, 2020 – via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. ^ "1951: José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac y la Universidad de Puerto Rico". Periódico El Adoquín (in Spanish). July 15, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
  10. ^ "Political Cartoon, "Plantada" | Harry S. Truman". www.trumanlibrary.gov.
  11. ^ Barradas, Efrain (March 22, 2008). "Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo, Los dibujos del progreso: El mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la critica al desarrollismo munocista, 1950-1960". CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. 20 (1) – via go.gale.com.
  12. ^ Delano, Jack (August 13, 1996). That's Life. La Editorial, UPR. ISBN 9780847702473 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Collazo, Rafael Cabrera (January 2008). "Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático". En Luis Muñoz Marín: Imágenes de la memoria, Fernando Picó, editor, San Juan, Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, 2008, pp. 258-299 – via www.academia.edu.
  14. ^ "Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo ?· la caricatura, como el chiste, tiene que tener un elemento que… - [PDF Document]". fdocuments.in.
  15. ^ "Recordando a Carmelo Filardi". vLex.
  16. ^ "Revista Horizontes: Primavera/Otoño 2011 | Año LIV Núms. 104-105".
  17. ^ a b "La Caricatura | Abriendo puertas". El Nuevo Dia.
  18. ^ Silvestrini-Pacheco, Blanca; Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo (1981). "Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination". Latin American Research Review. 16 (2): 156–171. doi:10.1017/S0023879100028363. JSTOR 2503130. S2CID 253136938.
  19. ^ https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marlasjournal.com%2Farticles%2F10.23870%2Fmarlas.182%2Fgalley%2F149%2Fdownload%2F&usg=AOvVaw1FumGalxSOFwEeioGZ-jAQ
  20. ^ "9788497432672: Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico - IberLibro - Yépez, Arturo: 8497432673". www.iberlibro.com.
  21. ^ Service, Metro-Inter News (10 October 2016). "Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira". Metro.
  22. ^ "El Mundo". ufdc.ufl.edu.
  23. ^ http://web.metro.inter.edu/ciedp/publicaciones/Luis-lopez-Negron-Book.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  24. ^ "Salón de Humorismo | Exhibición 40/30 | Archivo General". AUTOGIRO/el giro del arte actual. August 29, 2010.
  25. ^ https://repositorio.unb.br/bitstream/10482/16988/1/2014_JoseManuelGonzalezCruz.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  26. ^ "Rescata valiosas voces del pasado para hablarle al presente". La Perla del Sur. October 24, 2018.
  27. ^ here Archived January 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  28. ^ https://www.pressreader.com/puerto-rico/el-nuevo-dia1/20140813/282445642212764 – via PressReader. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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