Sueño del imperialismo

Date: 1949

Medium: Lithograph

Dimensions (cm.): 29.9 x 41.9

Variants: Méndez made two versions of this lithograph. This is the version used in the filmstrip. In the alternate version, the sleeping figure is wrapped in a blanket with dollar signs.

Alternate titles: Sueño profundo; Wrapping itself in a flag, Wall Street has dreams of world domination...even at this cost

Published edition: Unknown

Contemporary publication: Filmstrip, ¿Quién quiere la guerra, quién quiere la paz?

References: Academia de Artes 1814; Prignitz 1106.

Commentary:  This print was created for a filmstrip published by the John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Bryant Foundation, Los Angeles. The filmstrip was intended for U.S. audiences and contained 59 illustrations by members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and a script to be read as the filmstrip was advanced. The filmstrip title is sometimes rendered as ¿Quienes quieren la guerra, quienes quieren la paz?  (Peter Schneider)

This image appears in frame 23. The script reads: “Uno de los sueños dorados de los monopolistas yanquis es la creación de grandes cementerios de soldados muertos en la guerra. Las tumbas de los muertos en la pasada guerra costaron mucho. Pero ahora se hacen planes para que en el futuro cuestan menos. A razón de un dólar de ganancia por tumba la guerra rendirá fortunas.”  The English version reads: “Wrapping itself in a flag, Wall Street has dreams of world domination... even at this cost.”

Catalogue record number: 722