Word: eufemio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Chicago Art Institute first-nighters saw was hardly pleasant. Hanging in six main galleries were some 800 brutal black & white engravings depicting assassinations, street accidents, atrocities, nightmares, scandals and conflagrations. Eufemio Martinez Murdering His Sister showed a frenzied, popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting...
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