Materia de sombras

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

"Como en un gran mural, Córdova despliega las ideas, los proyectos ideológicos y la actividad de sus grandes protagonistas, para mostrarnos la coherencia interna que se oculta bajo la turbulencia del periodo revolucionario. Revolución política y no social, la que encabezó Madero en 1910 sólo podía conducir a la realización del proyecto prefigurado por los teóricos más lúcidos del porfirismo: crear un poderoso Estado nacional e impulsar el desarrollo capitalista."--Amazon

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.