Plate 24: Emiliano Zapata, leader the revolution, on horseback, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Francisco Mora Mexican
Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican
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Mora contributed this portrait of Zapata, a leader of the Mexican Revolution of 1910–20, to a portfolio commemorating that historic struggle, published by the print collective Taller de Gráfica Popular. The workshop built upon an important tradition of revolutionary printmaking in Mexico and aimed to further the progressive and democratic interests of Mexican people in all of their work. Mora and his fellow participants believed that the social purpose of an artwork was inseparable from its quality. In this print, Zapata, who fought to redistribute land to the peasants in his state of Morelos, appears on horseback leading the Liberation Army of the South, whose members carry a partially obscured banner that reads "tierra y la libertad" (land and freedom).
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