De Amore Prohibido y el Anaquista, El Emcee 2.0

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2014.42

Description

Collage of cartoon-like people (Albert Einstein, Selena, and Sid Vicious) and nonrepresentational swirling patterns and lines done in graphic style

Artwork Details

Medium

Color lithograph on Rives BFK

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment

Made/Created

Artist

Dicochea, Claudio

Date made

2014

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States, born Mexico

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

graphite in BL of R

Notes

Inscription Type: "XI/XII"

Transcription

graphite BC of R

Notes

Inscription Type: "De Amor Prohibido and tu Anachist, el Emce 2.0"

Transcription

BR corner graphite

Notes

Inscription Type: [artist signature] 14

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

identity, metaphysical concepts, philosophical concepts, race (group of people), culture-related concepts, popular culture, art history, arts-related disciplines, humanities, disciplines (concept), portraits, visual works (works)

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Disciplines (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Activities Facet, Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Cartoon characters, Punks

Search Terms

casta

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

18-1/2 in

Length

25-5/8 in

Dimension Description

image

Width

16-5/8 in

Length

22-3/8 in

Exhibition

LATINXAMERICAN

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Claudio Dicoceha playfully imagines the unlikely groupings of celebrities and public figures, and through appropriation and subversion, the artist challenges the genre of Casta painting, an 18th-century style of racially illustrative family portraits commissioned by nobility in New Spain and depicting supposedly natural hierarchies of mixed-raced or mestizaje individuals. Equivalent to the English word “caste,” Casta paintings were artistic representations used to reinforce the socio-racial classifications that were the object of the pseudo-scientific biological research and political hierarchies of the time. In De Amor Prohibido y el Anarquista, El Emcee 2.0 —“Of Forbidden Love and the Anarchist, the Emcee 2.0”— a dark-skinned Albert Einstein is shown on a lowrider bicycle as the offspring of a black couple dressed in the traditional garments of British royalty. The couple, however, is comprised of Sid Vicious, the anarchistic punk rocker and member of the band Sex Pistols, and Selena, the celebrated Mexican-American singer whose most popular hit, Amor Prohibido, speaks of the unrequited passion of two lovers from different societies.