About this artwork
Zalce’s surrealistic image dramatizes the struggle between the political left and right in Mexico as well as, more symbolically, the clash between modernity and the past. Based on a well-known press photograph, it depicts an altercation in Mexico City’s main square in November 1935 in which the cab drivers’ union disrupted a mounted demonstration by the reactionary paramilitary group Acción Revolucionaria Mexicanista (the so-called Gold Shirts).
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La surreal imagen de Zalce es una dramatización de las luchas entre la izquierda y la derecha mexicanas así como, de manera más simbólica, del enfrentamiento entre la modernidad y el pasado. Basada en una conocida fotografía publicada en la prensa, en ella se muestra un altercado en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México, ocurrido en noviembre de 1935, en el que el sindicato de taxistas interrumpió una manifestación a caballo del grupo paramilitar reaccionario Acción Revolucionaria Mexicanista (los llamados Camisas Doradas).
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Alfredo Zalce
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Title
- Taxi Drivers against the Gold Shirts
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Place
- Mexico (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1940
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Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 25.5 × 32 cm (10 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 44.1 × 50 cm (17 3/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1944.857
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City
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