Calaveras locas por la musica

“Skeletons Crazy about Music”

Author Pablo Esteban O'Higgins

Where? Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City

Year: 1938

From the MET: “Displayed here are the front (right) and back (left) covers of Calaveras, a four-page newspaper on politics published by the TGP from 1938 to 1965. Employing skeletons to address topical subjects, the imagery continues the tradition made popular in earlier decades by José Guadalupe Posada. On the right, figures extract rent from a family and drag away a pig—both representations of the Mexican working class suffering under inflation during the 1930s. The scene at the upper left addresses international politics. In a caricature of the 1938 Munich Agreement that gave Germany control over Czechoslovakian territory, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler eat a map of the region while the leaders of France and Britain who signed the agreement sit alongside them, grinning.”