Broadsheet comprising four pages printed on both sides entitled 'Calavera ... ya no soplas'
Los periódicos publicados por el TGP eran creaciones realmente colaborativas. Los artistas se reunían con frecuencia para revisar los textos y diseñar ilustraciones llamativas. Aquí se muestra la sección central de Calaveras, un periódico de cuatro páginas dedicado a la política. A la izquierda vemos una caricatura relacionada con la guerra civil española y la reciente toma de Madrid por parte de Francisco Franco. Dos aves de presa vestidas como tenderos representan un monopolio alimentario que aumentó los precios durante la crisis. A la derecha, una calavera que personifica al presidente mexicano Lázaro Cárdenas fumiga con insecticida (FLIT) a los poderosos terratenientes de Yucatán. La bomba, con la inscripción «Reparto», simboliza las reformas agrarias realizadas durante el mandato de Cárdenas, que devolvieron la tierra a los pueblos indígenas y a los minifundistas.
Artwork Details
- Title: Broadsheet comprising four pages printed on both sides entitled 'Calavera ... ya no soplas'
- Artist: Raúl Anguiano (Mexican, 1915–2006)
- Artist: Luis Arenal (Mexican, 1907–1985)
- Artist: Pablo Esteban O'Higgins (American, Salt Lake City, Utah 1904–1983 Mexico City)
- Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
- Date: ca. 1940
- Medium: Lithograph of relief prints, and letterpress
- Dimensions: Sheet: 18 7/8 × 27 9/16 in. (48 × 70 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
- Object Number: 46.46.338
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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