450 años de lucha. Homenaje al pueblo mexicano

Description:  146 graphics (principally photomechanical reproductions of linocuts) by 25 members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular. 144 loose plates in portfolio with a 12 page booklet containing historical notes on the prints and the Declaration of Principles of the TGP. Méndez contributed 11 of the prints (two of them in collaboration with Alfredo Zalce). The cover image is by Adolfo Quinteros and the booklet cover image is by Javier Iñíguez (images 145 and 146). Each print has text, lower left, containing the number in the series, title, and artist.

Date: 1960

Dimensions (cm): 40.3 x 27.3 (portfolio cover), 40.0 x 27.0  (each plate)

Published edition: 5,000 copies, 200 numbered and signed by the artists, printed commercially at the Talleres Gráficos de la Nación by offset on bond paper of various colors (white, pink, orange, blue, green). The album cover was printed on gray cardstock. Additional impressions of the individual prints  from the portfolio were  hand-pulled at the TGP; number of impressions unknown.

Signature and annotations: Impressions are unsigned. The plates are numbered 0 to 140, with numbers 127, 133, and 136 repeated. Each plate is annotated with the number in the series and “Grabado de [name of artist]”  in type, lower left.

References: Prignitz 888-967. (prints by Mendez: Prignitz 891, 929, 930, 936; the remaining prints by Méndez are listed in Prignitz without catalog numbers)

Cataloging note: 65 of the plates, including 43, 47, 54, 67, 72, 92, 107, and 116 by Méndez, were originally published in the 1946 portfolio Estampas de la revolución mexicana. Plates 1, 39, 43, and 68 are reduced-size reproductions of other previously published works by Méndez.

Contents (includes the following 11 prints by Méndez): 

     1. Cuauhtémoc

    39. José Guadalupe Posada

    43. La situación del campesino

    47. Despojo de la tierra de los Yaquis. (El ejército de Don Porfirio al servicio de las empresas yanquis)

    54. Libertad de prensa. (“Adoptamos una política patriarcal”, Porfirio Díaz)

    67. León de la Barra “El Presidente Blanco”. 1911

    68. La entrada de Francisco I. Madero en la Ciudad de México. 7 de junio de 1911

    72. El embajador Lane Wilson "arregla" el conflicto

   92. El hambre en la ciudad de México, en 1914-1915

   107.  Plutarco Elías Calles es deportado por órdenes del gobierno del gral. Cárdenas. 1936 (collaboration with Alfredo Zalce)

   116.  México en la guerra: Los braceros se van a Estados Unidos (collaboration with Alfredo Zalce)

Catalogue record number: 886