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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
"Hombre Controlador del Universo": International and Nation-Binding
I spent time today at the archives in Centro de Artes Naciónal (CAN), and in the Biblioteca de Artes Naciónal, going through the ample periodicals folder that has been assembled in the Centro de Investigacciones by several Mexican scholars that have scoured the Archivo General de Nación and the Hemeroteca Nacionale. Archival work I am learning is kind of parodoxical because to find what you need, you need to know what you need, but the reason you are looking is because you don't know about it or haven't seen it. At least in my case, as a rookie researcher. Luckily Rodrigo Bazaldua at CAN was kind enough to bring me their archive index, and let me point to what I thought I needed, and then weed things out from there.
After four hours taking pictures of periodicals, and a run to a tacquiera, I entered the large Biblioteca where Rodrigo told me I could find more on the history of Bellas Artes. The entire Centro de Artes campus is this amazing, modern, airy, angular and then curving open air structure, with green spaces scattered throughout. There was classical music playing in the library. There were giant tables. I was in heaven. Then I learned that you had to submit "papelitas", small papers with all of the item info and your personal info on it, and a librarian had to search every book out themselves. I was immediately guilty for what was a bit of a fishing trip. Two hours later, nestled at the end of the line of tables with a view of some glass walled classrooms and the campus green, leafing through some history of Bellas Artes texts I found what the equivalent of bread crumbs to an academic: at the end of the copy of the original Palacio opening booklet a few paragraphs about the Orozco and Rivera murals. Not much, but a few lines explaining how they clashed with their site, because of the colonial building design. Yesterday reading the catalogue from the "Quimera" 70th anniversary exhibit, in an article by Nestor García Canclini I learned that many foreign visitors use the Rivera "Hombre Controlador del Universo" mural as a way to speak about international issues, even though it is in a building that was meant ot be for the Meixcan people. More of the Bellas Artes texts confirmed that Bellas Artes is a destination and a departure point for a growing international art scene. A comforting paradox that when foreign visitors go there to find Mexico, they also might find home.
Me quedía a los archives del Centro de las Artes Naciónal y la Bíblioteca de las Artes Naciónal hoy, y estaba buscando en ricos archivos lo que he haciendo para scoláres méxicanos quienes buscaban en Hemeroteca Nacional, y los Archivos Generale de la Nación, y otros. Trabajo archivado es un parodijo porque un persona debe que buscar algo que no sabe, pero, buscar tiene que conocer lo que necessita, pero el eso por buscando es porque no he lo visto o no he lo supe. En el caso de mio, como una investigadora nueva. Suertemente, Rodrigo Bazaldua me ayudó, y amablemente me traigo los indices de los archives por que yo podía elegir lo que necessito.
Hasta que cuatro horas de tomiendo fotos de periodicos y revistas, y un comida corrida, me entré la Biblioteca, un lugar dónde Rodrigo me dijo que podría encontrar mas informacion sobre la hístoria de Bellas Artes. Todo del Centro del Artes es fantastico: moderno, llena de aire, con angulos y circulos, y ubicaciónes de verde. Musíco clasico estaba jugando en la biblioteca. Estaba en cielo. Entonces, aprendé que tenía que dar un papelito al official de la biblioteca para recibir un libro. Imediatemente sienté culpable por mis investigacciones indefinitivo. Dos horas despues, comoda a un mesa grande, cerca de las ventas con una vista de una edificio con paredes de cristal, leyendo alungas historias de Bellas Artes, encontré un indicio. Al fin de un libro de comemoracion, que contiendo una copia del folleto originale de 1934, dice: algunos frases sobre los murales de Rivera y Orozco. Nada más, pero, unas lineas sobre la contradiccione de los murales con el edificio de estilo colonialismo. Ayer, leyendo el catalogo de la Setenta Años de Bellas Artes "Quimera" exhibicion realizé, un un articulo para Nestor García Canclini que turistos extranjeros al museo con frecuencia ven elementos familiar y internacionale en los murales, aunque Bellas Artes es un edificio por la gente mexicana también. Más textos sobre Bellas Artes confirmen que es un destino y sala de embarque for muchas artistas en una scena de artes internacional subiendo. Una paradoja que se pone tranquilo.
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