UtopianCannibal.org / Enrique Chagoya
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.81
- Title
- UtopianCannibal.org
- Artist
- Enrique Chagoya
- Artist Nationality
- Mexican
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1953
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph, woodcut, chine collé, and collage
- Object Creation Date
- 2000
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- Mexico (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Mexico (nation)
- Dimensions
- 19 cm x 233.7 cm (7 1/2 in. x 92 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Mixed Media
- Primary Object Type
- collage
- Secondary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Codex book connected by a series of eight accordian folds composed of lithographs, woodcuts, chine collé, and collage. The work reads right to left with the rightmost page titled "UtopianCannibal.org" and the leftmost page with the single word "Fin" (translates to "end").
- Subject Matter
- From a series of codex books Enrique Chagoya began making in the 1990s. The work contains a variety of images taken from Western culture such as cartoon characters, dollar bills, Barbie, and Sambo; removing them from their original context and juxtaposing alongside art historical images as well as traditional & religious imagery from his native Mexico. Chagoya calls this approach "reverse anthropology" in the way he cannibalizes material from a wide range of sources and creates new stories and commentaries on European colonization and the appropriation and misrepresentation of indigenous cultures.
- Primary Keywords
- cartoons (humorous images)
- folk art
- historical figures
- mexican
- political and social issues
- satire
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- american regions
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- how we live
- north american
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the americas
- visual works
- visual works by function
- Rights
- If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit https://umma.umich.edu/about/services/request-image/ for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 19200 x 860
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2001/2.81
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.81/2001_2.81all.jpg
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- In public portfolios
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"UtopianCannibal.org; Enrique Chagoya." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.81/2001_2.81all.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
