Raíces iconográficas

"Las páginas de Portafolios invitan a ir por la senda del México del siglo XVI, una época de teología, de sangre vertida con el filo de la espada y la literatura; llaman también a la reflexión en torno a centurias posteriores, en las que hallamos a las figuras de las letras Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza, El Virgilio Mexicano, Juan Rulfo, narrador cumbre; y Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, poeta y humanista de grandes méritos; y personajes históricos (Francisco Primo de Verdad, Francisco Antommarchi y Francisco Villa), así como un texto sobre Liu Zhenyun"--Publisher's website.

"Catalog of the portraits in the National History Museum, which is the most important collection of colonial portraits in Mexico. A small b/w illustration of each work is accompanied by explanatory text and, in some cases, the biographical dates of the individuals portrayed. Provides date, material, size, and provenance. Also contains a biographical list of artists and illustrations of their signatures in the collection, as well as an index of colonial painters from the 16th-18th centuries and some from the 19th-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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.

Este trabajo tiene por objeto analizar el estado de los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento en los países de América Latina y el Caribe al inicio del siglo XXI.