Object number:
2022.1.1711
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
La Mano Mas Poderosa
Maker:
Yolanda López
Production organization:
Inkworks Press
Date made:
1997
Material/Technique:
ink on paper
Dimensions:
H: 22 in, W: 17.5 in
Credit line:
Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas-Santos
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Multicolored offset lithograph.
Content description:
Poster reads "La Mano Mas Poderosa" Translation "The most powerful hand." The hand has an image of the U.S.-Mexico border and the U.S. Southwestern states. On top of each finger is a Latina/o/x figure who is a laborer. The hand is modeled after "the All-Powerful Hand" of the wounded hand of Jesus Christ with the Holy Family on his fingertips. Instead of saints there are laborers who create the world. Poster is for a NACCS Conference Aptril 16-19, 1997
Concepts:
scholarship; Chicano/Mexican-American culture; event poster; Chicana Feminism
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