Colección documental sobre la independencia mexicana

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...

Panorama de la filosofía colonial -- Un siglo de oro -- La defensa frente a Europa -- El humanismo clásico -- La presencia de Descartes -- El pensamiento moderno de los jesuitas -- Los Elementos de filosofía moderna, de Gamarra -- La cima de la Ilustración--Alzate -- La preparación de la Independencia -- Modernidad en pensamiento y acción--Hidalgo.

Cua les son los usos y abusos de los y las mexicanas en el siglo XXI? Co mo piensan, co mo actu an, que palabras comunes usan? De do nde vienen las familias; co mo gobiernan en Me xico los presidentes; que uso le dan a las leyes? Preguntas que la prestigiada autora del bestseller, "Manual de la gente bien" quiere responder de manera directa, divertida, para hacer sonrei r a los mexicanos y las mexicanas, pero que tambie n los extranjeros residentes en Me xico o fuera del pai s comprendan a esta parte del mundo donde decir " si " puede ser " no", o donde es comu n utilizar palabras amable en...

An autobiographical testimony as told by Héctor García (b. México 1923), one of the most influential photojournalists in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, illustrated with a large number of full-page black and white plates of famous personages like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Pedro Infante, Maria Felix, along unique images of important events. Author Rivera who dedicated close to 5 years defines this editorial project as "Thanks to this extraordinary photographer and thorough chronicler, the reader has the great opportunity to be taken into those passages of the cultural,...