DepartmentLatin America

Print, Incierto es el Presente y el Futuro del Perú, Niños que Trabajan porque si no lo Hacen, no Comen / Uncertain is the Present and Future of Peru, Children who Work Because if they Do Not Do So, they Do Not Eat

NameSerigraph (screen print)

Maker Miguel Det (Peruvian)

Date2000-2011

Place madeLima, Lima, Peru, South America

MediumPaper, ink

Dimensions25 9/16 × 19 11/16 × 3/8 in. (65 × 50 × 1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2017.43.1

Object numberFA.2017.43.1

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionSerigraph print on thick, white paper. Linework image depicting a street scene where a man on the left is having his shoes shined by a child on the ground and is talking to another child who is carrying a tray. There is a bus driving by on the right and a smaller child is clinging to the boy with the tray. At the top it reads, "Incierto es el Presente y el Futuro del Perú, Niños que Trabajan porque si no lo Hacen, no Comen".