ASARO graphics collection [graphic]. 2006-2009.

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ASARO graphics collection [graphic]. 2006-2009.

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Series of original prints (woodcuts, lithographs and serigraphs) advocating human rights, social justice and other causes as they pertain to various contemporary events and situations in Mexico -- e.g. unjust treatment of illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S.; the violent government repression of the APPO strike in Oaxaca in 2006; the serial murders of women in Ciudad Juárez; genetically modified corn; U.S. exploitation of Mexico's oil resources; and Mexican political prisoners. Another series features contemporary revisions of the image of Emiliano Zapata. Also includes miscellaneous prints issued by ASARO depicting Benito Juarez and other subject matter; and lower quality ephemeral posters used to promote various events, many of them affiliated with ASARO's exhibition center Espacio Zapata. Throughout the collection, images include visual references to police states (e.g. swastikas of Nazi Germany), imperialism, fascism, capitalism, socialism, revolution, and Mexico's agrarian culture, among other themes. Many images also bear the traditional Mexican motif of the skeleton ("calaveras"). One folder (--PIC) includes self-published booklet: ASARO a 2 años; and a dvd copy of documentary film on ASARO: El Muro.

15 oversize folders (104 prints) and 1 folder (1 booklet and 1 dvd) : color ; 100 x 70 cm or smaller.

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Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca

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ASARO (Group of artists)

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Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO) was born in response to a call from the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) and consists of stencil artists, grafitti artists, printmakers, painters, photographers, videographers, theater artists, designers, cartoonists, etc. who first met in October, 2006. Their stated mission is to raise consciousness about the social reality of the modern form of oppression faced by people in Oaxaca by taking their art to the street.--From we...

Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919

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Emiliano Zapata (b. 8 August 1879, Morelos, Mexico–d. 10 April 1919, Morelos, Mexico) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. He was born in the rural village of Anenecuilco (Morelos State), where peasant communities were under increasing pressure from the small landowning class who monopolized land and water resources for sugar cane production with the suppo...