Tolomeo y Copérnico en el Nuevo Mundo. Juan O’Gorman y el muro sur de la Biblioteca Central de Ciudad Universitaria
The astronomical debate between the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus and its re-signification in Modern Mexican painting forms the general subject matter of this essay. Mid twentieth-century painters who set about representing the opposition between geo- and helio-centrism included Antonio Ruiz an...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.atenea.esteticas.unam.mx:article/2364 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/2364 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | south wall Central Library UNAM Ptolemy geo and heliocentrism Copernicus architecture Mexican painting cosmographic maps muro sur Biblioteca Central Juan O´Gorman Tolomeo Copérnico geo y heliocentrismo arquitectura pintura mexicana mapas cosmográficos |
| Sumario: | The astronomical debate between the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus and its re-signification in Modern Mexican painting forms the general subject matter of this essay. Mid twentieth-century painters who set about representing the opposition between geo- and helio-centrism included Antonio Ruiz and Juan O’Gorman: while the former’s small mural on this subject was the fruit of a private commission and took inspiration from conventions governing European cosmographic maps in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; O’Gorman’s, on the other hand, which dominates the south wall of the UNAM’s Central Library at Ciudad Universitaria, forms part of a complex iconographic program devoted to the meeting (or collision) of cultures and values that marked the colonial period. An important part of the argument of this article concerns the architect and painter’s aim to achieve a Mexicanist decoration setting in tension ancient prehispanic books or codices with the practical and intellectual functions of a modern library. |
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