En un día como hoy--

Catalogue of an exhibition organized within the framework of the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution that explore how the national heroes were portrayed in art in the early 19th century. An interesting inclusion is the iconography of national heroes in relation to the sculptures of classic antiquity. The exhibition includes close to 110 pieces including sculptures, paintings, prints, photography, books, manuscripts and some magazines largely produced in the 19th Century in México and Europe.

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...

Tanto en el aula como en las paginas del periodico, Jose Alvarado dedico su vida a la ensenanza, y su vida misma es una leccion de agudeza, de sensibilidad, de generosidad. Testimonio de ello son estas paginas, en donde lo anecdotico se vuelve trascendente; este magnifico prosista fue tambien, un hombre de hondas convicciones politicas y sociales.

Las reflexiones de este conjunto de ensayos aspiran a conformar una via que no solo recorra el lapso que separa a la Independencia de la Revolucion sino que tambien alcance al presente y vaya aun mas alla. La riqueza de esta obra colectiva radica en que incorpora a las perspectivas propias de la historia diversos analisis de la memoria y la literatura de esa epoca y posteriores. Los autores logran asi ampliar sus temas de reflexion -de lo historico a lo politico, lo social y lo cultural- y ofrecer un panorama tanto de la actualidad como del futuro inminente, cumpliendo asi la maxima de...