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Poster - ¡¡Mujeres!! Trabajad En La Retaguardia; Women!! Work in the Rearguard
  • ¡¡Mujeres!! Trabajad En La Retaguardia
    Lozano, Jésus
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¡¡Mujeres!! Trabajad En La Retaguardia; Women!! Work in the Rearguard

  • Object:

    Poster

  • Place of origin:

    Spain (made)
    Madrid, Spain (published)

  • Date:

    ca. 1937 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Lozano, Jésus (artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Colour lithograph

  • Credit Line:

    Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko

  • Museum number:

    E.84-2004

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR3

  • Image in copyright

In the early months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), women fought on the Republican front line in a spirit of revolutionary idealism and gender equality. However, from March 1937, marking a move back towards the conservative tradition of segregated roles, women were required to work on the home front. This poster suggests that their new roles (symbolised by the typist, seamstress and nurse) were equally important to the Republican cause.

Physical description

Image of three women shown in three-quarter length. The image recedes on the diagonal from the lower left to upper right corner. The woman in the foreground wears green and is cutting medical gauze with a pair of scissors. The figure in the middle ground wears white and is seated behind a sewing machine. The background figure is adjusting the mechanism on a typewriter. Spanish text printed in black and red across the upper margin.

Place of Origin

Spain (made)
Madrid, Spain (published)

Date

ca. 1937 (made)

Artist/maker

Lozano, Jésus (artist)

Materials and Techniques

Colour lithograph

Marks and inscriptions

¡¡MJUERES!! Women!!
TRABAJAD EN LA/ RETAGUARDIA work in the rearguard

Dimensions

Height: 100.3 cm, Width: 68.6 cm

Descriptive line

Spanish Civil War poster by Jesus Lozano, ca. 1937

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

The Militant Poster 1936-1985. Dagmar Finkova and Sylva Petrova. International Organization of Journalists. Prague. 1986.
page 44

Exhibition History

Propaganda Posters from the Schreyer Collection (Henry Cole Wing, Level 3 05/12/2002-23/03/2003)

Materials

Paper; Ink

Techniques

Colour lithography

Subjects depicted

Women; War; Propaganda; Politics; Gendered space; Typewriter; Sewing machine; Gauze

Categories

Prints; Propaganda

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O100830
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