Las voces de la ciudad

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.

The main body of the book is the facsimile and transcription of the collection of themanuscript and typed letters and telegraphs mailed between artist Frida Kahlo and doctor LeoEloesser, and enriched with contributions written by experts in art and medicine such as CarlosMonsivais, Teresa del Conde, Juan Pascoe, and others. The group of letters corresponds to 3phases covering from 1936 to 1951: The first part reflects a courteous friendship and a paternalrelationship of total confidence and where she consults him for all medical and personal matters. The second part of the correspondence airs ...

Obra ricamente ilustrada que describle la influencia de Picasso en los artistas mexicanos durante los primeros años del siglo XX. Con un ensayo introductorio de Xavier Moyssén L.

"En esta extraña pero fascinante novela, el Chanfalla, personaje nacido de la entraña misma de la ciudad de México, vive su adolescencia y primera juventud a través de cuatro niveles narrativos que lo rebotan desde la lobreguez de un apando donde lo asalta la rima interior de sus experiencias carcelarias, hasta sus días felices del inicio del porrismo (1938), cuando acosado por los agentes secretos (Tiras) que le exprimen hasta el último cobre obtenido en sus correrías, halla refugio en el viejo plantel de la Preparatoria de San Ildefolso, desde donde escapa al ambiente de los salones...