El movimiento social en Veracruz

Date: 1927

Original medium: Drawing

Published in: Manuel Maples Arce, El movimiento social en Veracruz (Xalapa, 1927), cover 

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Commentary:  Méndez illustrated the cover of Maples Arce’s brochure, El movimiento social en Veracruz (The Social Movement in Veracruz) for a celebration of May Day 1927, with the same kind of austere line that he used for the 1926 edition of Zapata exaltación.  The two figures with mattocks over their shoulders, workers in the reconstruction of Veracruz, are visually united by the elegantly simple overlapping composition; the pattern of plain lettering and linear figures suggests the influence here of Art Deco. This was one of Méndez’s last images from the Jalapa phase of the Stridentist Movement. (Deborah Caplow)

Catalogue record number: 473