Campesino y soldado

Date: 1928

Medium: Woodcut

Dimensions (cm.): Information to be added

Alternate titles: Unknown. This title supplied by the editors.

Published edition: Unknown

Contemporary publication: Germán List Arzubide, Zapata: exaltación (Xalapa, 1928)

References: Information to be added

Commentary: In Jalapa, as a member of the Stridentist Movement, Méndez provided woodblock illustrations for the second edition of a poetic biography of Zapata, Zapata: exaltacion, by Stridentist writer Germán List Arzubide, published by Ediciones Estridentistas.  

Based on List Arzubide’s interviews with people who had known Revolutionary General Emiliano Zapata, this was the first book published about the man who came to stand for the most radical wing of the Mexico Revolution, and Méndez’s woodcuts were among the first prints to depict scenes from the Mexican Revolution. Méndez’s portrayals of Zapata predate works by Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco (known as Los Tres Grandes—the Three Big Ones—in reference to their importance in the Mexican Mural Movement), who began to incorporate likenesses of Zapata in murals and prints at the end of the 1920s.  (Deborah Caplow)

Catalogue record number: 869