International Festival of the Arts, Reform Theater presents "Your Feed is Coming, You Mangy Chickens!" by Emilio Carballido with music by Rafael Elizondo, Mexico City Cultural Olympics
Michael C. Gross
American, born 1945
1968
A lithograph poster by Michael C. Gross that advertises a 1968 Mexico City theatrical presentation and arts festival, using a stark ink-and-wash image to set a darkly comic, theatrical mood.
What hits you first is the large, looser-than-photographic ink drawing of two ghostly figures crammed into a coffin-like cart, their forms bleeding into a long, black shadow that drifts across the page while the program information sits as a spare column of type at the right.
The poster shows how 1960s graphic design turned promotional images into expressive, metaphorical artworks—merging illustration, theatre, and festival branding to internationalize contemporary cultural events and visual languages.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
21 3/16 x 21 1/4" (53.8 x 54 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the XIX Olympics Committee
Accession
356.2014.45
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