Imagen y pensamiento en El Tajín

El primer propósito de esta obra es elaborar una historia de la crisis estructural iniciada en México a principios de la década de los setenta y que perdura hasta la actualidad, a pesar de la instrumentación de distintas políticas para superarla.Se analiza entonces, la crisis del modelo de sustitución de importaciones durante los setenta; la reforma neoliberal iniciada a mediados de los años ochenta, así como la crisis de 1994-1995, punto de inflexión en la historia económica y política moderna de México, cuya gravedad se refleja en una generación de mexicanos marcada por el...

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

Copy of reports rendered by Bishop Tamarón of Durango in compliance with royal decrees regarding his inspection of his see, which comprised the present territory of Durango, Chihuahua, parts of other Mexican states, and New Mexico. Consists of an introduction and three parts. Printed as Demostración del vastísimo obispado de la Nueva Vizcaya-1765 (ed. by Vito Alessio Robles, Mexico, 1937) Includes a transcript of nearly all of Part I and the itineraries of Part II in the handwriting of Alphonse Pinart (M-M 232 A).

This publication presents a comprehensive study in the context of portraiture and a masterfully realized study of the fundamental stages of Mexico's political events, artistic, social and scientific. It shows how all classes and social groups represented themselves, the visual symbols of power, wealth and collective moral values in New Spain and the evolution in Mexico during Independence as represented by the painters of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Outstanding works of Spanish artists such as José Joaquín de la Vega, Pelegrí, the Mexican painter Juan...