Horacio Cardo, Illustrator With a Political Edge, Is Dead at 74

He later worked as a humorist for a newspaper, the art director for a direct sales company, and a freelance artist, before being hired in 1979 by Clarín, which served as his base for decades.

In addition to his son, he is survived by his daughters, Nuria, Ivana, Samanta and Sabrina Cardo; two grandchildren; and his sister, Edith Dodds. His marriage to Silvia Arenales, like his marriage to Ms. Kraus, ended in divorce.

Mr. Cardo was also a serious chess player who wrote books on the game’s strategy under a pseudonym and wrote and illustrated, under his own name, “The Story of Chess” (1998), a fairy tale for children that The Orlando Sentinel called “an original way of introducing a provocative game to young readers.”

And his distaste for Sigmund Freud, whom he described as greedy and dangerous, led him to create a series of critical and sometimes grotesque paintings and illustrations, one of which shows Freud as a switch preparing to send electroshock to the helmeted heads of four faceless patients. His anti-Freud work was exhibited at the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in 2009 and adapted into a companion book, “Sigmund Fraud and Psychoanalysis.”

“I am psychoanalyzing Freud and psychoanalysis,” Mr. Cardo said in “Psychomigrations,” a film by Tzachi Schiff about the exhibition. “If he could psychoanalyze the world and art, art could psychoanalyze him and his theories with equal authority.”

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