Carmelo Filardi Explained

Carmelo Filardi
Birth Name:Carmelo Filardi Cantisani[1]
Birth Date:November 25, 1900
Birth Place:Yauco, Puerto Rico
Death Date:December 7, 1989
Death Place:Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Nationality:American
Known For:cartoons published in El Mundo newspaper
Occupation:Cartoonist
Children:Carlos Filardi Antonmattei[2] [3]
Parents:Vicente Filardi, Maria Cantisani
Relatives:Domingo 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 Spanish; Castilian: El Mundo newspaper starting in 1927. He was from Yauco, Puerto Rico[4] and his parents were born in Italy. 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 Spanish; Castilian: 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:

There is a Carmelo Filardi Medal award.[28]

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.[18] The professional tennis player Alex Llompart Filardi is also related to Carmelo Filardi.[29]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: English: Carmelo Filardi Death Certificate. August 5, 2020. Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Book: Roy-Féquière, Magali. Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico. August 13, 2004. Temple University Press. 9781592132317. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Carlos Filardi Antonmattei Obituary - San Juan, PR. Dignity Memorial.
  4. Web site: Yauco, Puerto Rico. welcome.topuertorico.org.
  5. Web site: University of Puerto Rico.
  6. Book: Delano, Jack. Jack Delano

    . That's Life: Cartoons by "Joaquin". 1996. University of Puerto Rico. 08477-0247-2. Jack Delano. 22 December 2012. 168. English, Spanish.

  7. Book: Filardi, Carmelo. Un año de historia en caricaturas: selección de las publicadas en El Mundo de mayo del 1946 a mayo de 1947. August 13, 1947. Impr. Venezuela. 11125677. Open WorldCat.
  8. Web site: English: Title page of Una época de historia en caricaturas. August 6, 2020. Wikimedia Commons.
  9. Web site: 1951: José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac y la Universidad de Puerto Rico . Periódico El Adoquín . July 15, 2019 . es . September 28, 2023.
  10. Book: Roy-Féquière, Magali. Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico. August 13, 2004. Temple University Press. 9781592132317. Google Books.
  11. Web site: Political Cartoon, "Plantada" | Harry S. Truman. www.trumanlibrary.gov.
  12. Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo, Los dibujos del progreso: El mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la critica al desarrollismo munocista, 1950-1960. Efrain. Barradas. March 22, 2008. CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. 20. 1. go.gale.com.
  13. Book: Delano, Jack. That's Life. August 13, 1996. La Editorial, UPR. 9780847702473. Google Books.
  14. Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático. Rafael Cabrera. Collazo. En Luis Muñoz Marín: Imágenes de la memoria, Fernando Picó, editor, San Juan, Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, 2008, pp. 258-299. January 2008 . www.academia.edu.
  15. Web site: Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo ?· la caricatura, como el chiste, tiene que tener un elemento que… - [PDF Document]]. fdocuments.in.
  16. Web site: Recordando a Carmelo Filardi. vLex.
  17. Web site: Revista Horizontes: Primavera/Otoño 2011 | Año LIV Núms. 104-105.
  18. Web site: La Caricatura | Abriendo puertas. El Nuevo Dia.
  19. Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination. Silvestrini-Pacheco, Blanca. Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo. 1981. Latin American Research Review. 16. 2. 156–171. 10.1017/S0023879100028363 . 2503130. 253136938 . free.
  20. https://marlasjournal.com/articles/10.23870/marlas.182
  21. Web site: 9788497432672: Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico - IberLibro - Yépez, Arturo: 8497432673. www.iberlibro.com.
  22. Web site: Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira. Metro-Inter News. Service. Metro. 10 October 2016 .
  23. Web site: El Mundo. ufdc.ufl.edu.
  24. http://web.metro.inter.edu/ciedp/publicaciones/Luis-lopez-Negron-Book.pdf
  25. Web site: Salón de Humorismo | Exhibición 40/30 | Archivo General. August 29, 2010. AUTOGIRO/el giro del arte actual.
  26. https://repositorio.unb.br/bitstream/10482/16988/1/2014_JoseManuelGonzalezCruz.pdf
  27. Web site: Rescata valiosas voces del pasado para hablarle al presente. October 24, 2018. La Perla del Sur.
  28. http://www.flmm.org/noticias_16.htm here
  29. Web site: https://www.pressreader.com/puerto-rico/el-nuevo-dia1/20140813/282445642212764. PressReader.

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