About this artwork
This collectively produced broadside pamphlet was one of the first calavera sheets published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular for the Day of the Dead, drawing on the dark humor, chaotic energy, and satirical edge of the tradition popularized by Posada. The group’s sympathies on both local and international issues are made clear. On the cover, the popular classes fend off monopolistic and rent-gouging calaveras while the back page celebrates a new labor confederation (CTM) and denounces the Munich accords and the partition of Czechoslovakia as a vampiric alliance of Hitler and Mussolini aided by the French and British prime ministers.
Español:
Esta hoja volante de realización colectiva fue una de las primeras hojas de calaveras publicadas por el Taller de Gráfica Popular en ocasión del Día de Muertos, elaborando el humor negro, la energía caótica y la agudeza satírica de la tradición popularizada por Posada. En ella las posturas políticas del grupo sobre cuestiones tanto nacionales como internacionales se hacen explícitas. En la portada las clases populares se defienden de un grupo de calaveras monopolizadoras y rentistas. Por contraste, en la contraportada se celebra la nueva confederación obrera (CTM) y se denuncian los acuerdos de Múnich y la división de Checoslovaquia, vistos como una alianza vampírica entre Hitler y Mussolini auxiliada por los primeros ministros de Francia e Inglaterra.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, Mexico) (Publisher)
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Title
- Calaveras locas por la musica (Calaveras Crazy For Music)
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Place
- Mexico (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1938
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Medium
- Lithograph in black (recto) and red (verso) on tan wove paper
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Dimensions
- 349 × 227 mm (image); 349 × 227 mm (image) [right to left, recto]; 349 × 227 mm (image); 337 × 227 mm (image) [left to right, verso]; 470 × 345 mm (sheet, folded); 470 × 675 mm (sheet, unfolded)
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Credit Line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1944.891
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