Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Eric Avery |
Title |
History |
Date |
1984 |
Medium |
Lithograph |
Technique |
Linoleum block print |
Dimensions |
19 1/2" x 27 1/2" |
Description |
Eric Avery History, 1984 Lithograph on chiri handmade paper, 25½" x 37¼" Mexic-Arte Museum Permanent Collection 2020.2.198.1 Gift from Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. "I made this print in Hotel El Salvador in Mexico City in 1984. At the time I was meeting with refugee activists in Mexico City. As background I was reading Penny Lernoux's book, The Cry of the People*. I had bought a papel picado of calaveras for Day of the Dead. I positioned the tissue cut out on a piece of linoleum. I then spray painted this. When I lifted off the papel, I had the masked image on the linoleum. I cut out the stenciled image, reproducing the papel. I then cut the names of the countries I was reading about across the top of the linoleum. The great Satan is pulling Mexico, and Central American countries holding onto each other into Hell. The Nicaragua Sandinistas had broken off from the United States. It's a simple linoleum block print about Ronald Reagan's Central American war. I printed it in the hotel room. Impressions of this print are in a number of museum print collections." - Eric Avery *Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America, Hardcover by Penny Lernoux, 1980 |
Object Name |
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Search Terms |
Day of the Dead Papel picado Skeleton Politics Papel Picado |
Object Number |
2020.2.198.1 |
Collection |
Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. Collection |