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(Left) Max Pechstein, Werbedienst der deutschen Republik, The National Assembly: The Cornerstone of the German Socialist Republic, 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, Beverly Hills, CA, © Pechstein Hamburg/Tökendorf/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2022, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA (Right) Fernando Castro Pacheco, Carrillo Puerto, Symbol of the Southeastern Revolution (Carrillo Puerto, símbolo de la revolución del sureste), 1947, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Jules and Gloria Heller, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Exhibition
Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany
29 Oct 2022 – 29 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
Cost of entry
Adults: $25 (Concessions available)
Address
- 5905 Wilshire Blvd
- Los Angeles
California - CA 90036
- United States
Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany explores the shared subjects and visual strategies of two key moments in 20th-century political printmaking.
About
Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany explores the shared subjects and visual strategies of two key moments in 20th-century political printmaking: the revival of German Expressionist graphics in response to a nationwide revolution in 1918, and the formation of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Print Workshop) in Mexico City in the late 1930s. Although rooted in distinct social and historical contexts, artists in both countries responded to their respective upheavals in print to communicate to a mass audience in forceful visual terms.
Examining direct and indirect points of exchange, Pressing Politics considers the iconographic precedents for these artists’ political imagery, the range of printed works they produced, and the conditions that gave rise to their art. Drawn primarily from LACMA’s collection, the exhibition underscores the enduring power of the printed image and highlights the contributions of Mexican and German artists to a global iconography of political graphics.
