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Maniquí [Mannequin]
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Leopoldo Méndez
(Mexico City, Mexico, 1902–1969)
NationalityMexican, North America
Date1932
MediumLinocut
DimensionsSheet: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (35 × 23.8 cm)
Image: 4 1/16 × 4 1/8 in. (10.3 × 10.4 cm)
Image: 4 1/16 × 4 1/8 in. (10.3 × 10.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1986.82
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1986.82
On View
Not on viewLeopoldo Méndez produced this print during a transitional period in his career: after he had participated in the avant-garde Estridentismo movement, which celebrated all things modern, but before founding the socially engaged Taller de Gráfica Popular [People’s Graphic Workshop]. Here he presents a moment in modern life. Two shop workers prepare a window display featuring a mannequin. Part dancer, part automaton, the uncanny figure suggests an uneasy response to both the rapid urbanization of Mexico City and the increasingly independent role women had in Mexican society.
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