!Fuera! !No necesitamos mas tropas! (Out! We don't need more troops!)

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

!Fuera! !No necesitamos mas tropas! (Out! We don't need more troops!)

Entry/Object ID

2013.20

Description

Faces of four gaunt Hispanic individuals, each holding black batons and surrounded by text in Spanish, printed in black and green

Artwork Details

Medium

Woodcut print

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Lisa Aarli

Made/Created

Artist

Cortez, Carlos

Date made

1984

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

Mexican American, Hispanic American, modern North American, modern American, Americas, The

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

23 in

Length

35 in

Exhibitions

Fires Will Burn: Politically Engaged Art from the Permanent Collection

LATINXAMERICAN

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Carlos Cortez, a prolific Chicago printmaker, continued the political and cultural work of his immigrant parents by creating woodcut prints for the Industrial Workers of the World, an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905 to which Cortez himself belonged for nearly 60 years. The first print, a poster for a 1984 show as part of the Chicago’s Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, depicts four figures protesting against the arrival of American troops in their home countries. The second, made for the Chicago Mural Group — a collective founded in 1971 and responsible for hundreds of public artworks across the city — shows a woman painting a mural wherein the proximity between the muralist’s brush and the bayonet clutched by one of the figures in the background suggests the potency of art as a political weapon.