Tag: Enrique Chagoya

Erique Chagoya, Cannibales Modernistes, 1999. Color lithograph, woodcut, and chine collé. University of Denver Art Collection 2026, Funds from Taylor Kirpatrick. Details of Adelita and Superman.

Chagoya’s Take on Superheroism

By Amelie Satterwhite, Graduate Class 2027 Mexican born artist Enrique Chagoya is primarily a painter and printmaker, yet he also engages in ‘reverse anthropology.’ The idea of ‘reverse anthropology’ Chagoya describes as “an antithesis of modernist strategies of appropriation,” appropriating and “cannibalizing” Western- European and American works of art for himself.[i] Among the University of...

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