Detail from | Detalle de: Calaveras del montón. Número 1, 1910
Calaveras from the Heap. Number 1 | Calaveras del montón. Número 1
José Guadalupe Posada (illustrator | ilustrador)
Anonymous (author) | Anónimo (autor)
Calaveras del montón. Número 1
[Ciudad de] México: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1910
Issued just weeks before the date now recognized as the official beginning of the Mexican Revolution, this broadside suggests mounting tensions and violence: the heap of calaveras—including soldiers, political leaders, priests, and dentists—overwhelms the graveyard. Posada’s machete-wielding central figure is dressed as a charro, or horseman, which identifies him as working class, in opposition to the dictatorial elite, who dressed in French fashion.
Publicado tan solo unas semanas antes de la fecha que ahora se considera como el inicio de la Revolución mexicana, los versos de esta calavera sugieren tensiones y violencia crecientes; el montón de calaveras, entre las que se encuentran soldados, líderes políticos, sacerdotes, dentistas, abruma el cementerio. En el centro de la imagen vemos una calavera con machete desenvainado, vestida de charro (atuendo que Posada usa para identificar a la clase trabajadora, en oposición a la élite dictatorial, que vestía a la moda francesa).
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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