Poster advertising a free night course to learn printmaking and bookbinding
El cartel fue encargado por el fugaz Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Propaganda (DAPP) —una oficina independiente integrada en la Secretaría de Educación Pública—, que en aquel momento estaba creando escuelas y organizando clases nocturnas gratuitas para los trabajadores. Anuncia un curso gratuito de artes gráficas y encuadernación. El diseño general y la imagen del hombre que trabaja en una encuadernación fueron creados, probablemente, por Díaz de León, que en 1929 estableció y dirigió el Taller de Artes del Libro en la Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas. Este póster refleja algunos aspectos del diseño de los carteles rusos, popularizado por una exposición que se celebró en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de Ciudad de México en 1936.
Artwork Details
- Title: Poster advertising a free night course to learn printmaking and bookbinding
- Artist: Attributed to Francisco Díaz de León (Mexican, Aguascalientes 1897–1975 Mexico City)
- Date: 1937–1939
- Medium: Offset lithograph, woodcut, backed with linen
- Dimensions: Sheet: 37 3/16 × 27 15/16 in. (94.5 × 71 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
- Object Number: 46.46.334
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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