"La risa del pueblo": Con su música a otra parte ("The Laughter of the People": With Their Music Elsewhere) Artist: José Chávez Morado (Mexican, 1909–2002)
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, founded 1937)

1939

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Broadsheets distributed by the Taller existed as alternative media to the right-wing, foreign-controlled newspapers. In this piece, a gachupín—a negative term for Spaniards living in Mexico—sits blowing into a tuba, sardonically labeled “free press.” The head of Miguel Ordorica, the pro-fascist editor of La prensa, forms the bell of the instrument, with names of other papers written on his neck. Wearing a swastika earring, he breathes out words like “lies,” “betrayal,” and “provocation.” The verses below declare that the free press is actually “neither free nor press,” and the expression con su música a otra parte means, politely, “get lost.”

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 26 3/8 × 16 15/16 in. (67 × 43 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Holmes Pearson, B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1941

Accession Number

1954.4.23

Geography

Made in Mexico

Culture

Mexican

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Bibliography
  • Michael Ricker et al., El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte, exh. cat. (Athens, Ga.: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2015), 128, ill
  • Diane Miliotes, What may come : the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Mexican political print = Lo que puede venir : El Taller de Gráfica Popular y el grabado político mexicano., First, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), 15, no. Plate 9, ill
  • Dawn Ades and Alison McClean, Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960, ed. Mark McDonald, exh. cat. (London; Austin: British Museum Press, 2009), 142, no. 75
  • Gina Costa et al., Para la gente : art, politics and cultural identity of the Taller de Gra´fica Popular : selected works form the Charles S. Hayes Collection of twentieth-century Mexican graphics, exh. cat. (Notre Dame (IN): Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2009), 42, no. 11, Plate 11
Object copyright
Copyright José Chávez Morad / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP
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Additional information

Object/Work type

lithographs

Inscriptions

Inscribed in plate, UC: "LA RISA DEL PUEBLO", LR: "CON SU MUSICA / A OTRA PARTE", more spanish text in the image itself and in LL.

Signed

Monogram in plate LR: "I.O." or "J.P.", could represent Isidoro Ocampo or Juan Pueblo (pseudonym of Chavez Morado)

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