Las voces de la ciudad

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...

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.

"Nine critical essays by well-known authors (González Casanovas, De la Peña, Eduardo Menéndez, and others) examine role of government and public policies during 1980s. Some issues include health, education and technology policies, Church-State relations, political transformation toward modernization, and new political culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Cine político en México (1968-2017) busca dibujar caminos que ayuden a visibilizar cierta dimensión histórica, política y social del cine y el video en México; apela a valorar el quehacer cinematográfico y audiovisual en su relación con movimientos sociales y culturales; y se pregunta acerca de los horizontes que se manifiestan, y los efectos que se producen en esa conexión que establece con la realidad. Buscamos establecer un diálogo entre la mirada que analiza la obra y la experiencia de hacer cine o video en México, y es en este intercambio cuando el trabajo toma forma en dos...