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Broadside comprising four pages printed on both sides (one side in red, the other in black) entitled 'Calaveras locas por la musica' (Skeletons Crazy about Music)

1938
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Displayed here are the front (right) and back (left) covers of Calaveras, a four-page newspaper on politics published by the TGP from 1938 to 1965. Employing skeletons to address topical subjects, the imagery continues the tradition made popular in earlier decades by José Guadalupe Posada. On the right, figures extract rent from a family and drag away a pig—both representations of the Mexican working class suffering under inflation during the 1930s. The scene at the upper left addresses international politics. In a caricature of the 1938 Munich Agreement that gave Germany control over Czechoslovakian territory, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler eat a map of the region while the leaders of France and Britain who signed the agreement sit alongside them, grinning.



Aquí pueden verse la portada (derecha) y la contraportada (izquierda) de Calaveras, un periódico de cuatro páginas de temática política editado por el TGP entre 1938 y 1965. El uso de calaveras para abordar temas de actualidad sigue la tradición popularizada en las décadas anteriores por José Guadalupe Posada. En el lado derecho, las figuras se apoderan de las rentas de una familia y arrastran a un cerdo, dos representaciones del sufrimiento de la clase trabajadora mexicana causado por la inflación durante la década de 1930. La escena de la parte superior izquierda se ocupa de la política internacional. En una caricatura de los Acuerdos de Múnich de 1938 que otorgaron el control de los territorios checoslovacos a Alemania, Benito Mussolini y Adolf Hitler engullen un mapa de la región mientras los líderes de Francia y Gran Bretaña que firmaron el acuerdo, sentados junto a ellos, sonríen.

Artwork Details

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  • Title: Broadside comprising four pages printed on both sides (one side in red, the other in black) entitled 'Calaveras locas por la musica' (Skeletons Crazy about Music)
  • Artist: Pablo Esteban O'Higgins (American, Salt Lake City, Utah 1904–1983 Mexico City)
  • Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
  • Date: 1938
  • Medium: Lithograph in red and black, letterpress
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 26 9/16 in. (47 × 67.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
  • Object Number: 46.46.341(1)
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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