Que biene el Cocó (Here Comes the Bogey Man)

Enrique Chagoya, artist

born 1953

Segura Publishing, publisher

Que biene el Cocó (Here Comes the Bogey Man), 1999

Portfolio/Series title: The Return to Goya's Caprichos

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: etching; aquatint; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 210 x 147 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 367 x 279 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 7/16 x 11 0.9843 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund

Accession number: 1999.0142.01

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American Dream

Enrique Chagoya explores the fears of living as a person of color in America. In Here Comes the Bogey Man, Chagoya reworks one of 18th-century artist Francisco Goya’s Caprichos, a series of prints condemning the follies of Spanish society, to depict a mother and her children cowering in fear from a hooded white man. In Escape from Fantasylandia, the artist ironically uses a survival guide format to inform viewers about the challenges faced by undocumented immigrants. The different panels, such as the one featuring a man making a deal with the devil, expose the trials and perils faced by those seeking access to the American Dream. —Erin Dellasega

Exhibition Label: "Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper," Jun-2001, Stephen Goddard The Caprichos, a series of 80 viciously cynical prints etched by Francisco Goya in 1799, are a high-water mark in the genre of the satirical print. Generations of artists have responded to Goya’s superb images that concern the imperfec-tions of humanity. In this case, the contemporary Mexican American artist Enrique Chagoya brings the Caprichos up to date. In number 43 (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters) the demons in Goya’s prototype have become fighters and bombers, and in number 51, in which Goya ridiculed witches who spruce themselves up, we see Senator Jesse Helms and Jerry Falwell trimming their nails after they have cut off the feet of Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby that they identified with gay pride.