Transfiguraciones de la mirada devota

• Autores: Luis Gerardo Morales Moreno
• Localización: Historia y grafía, ISSN 1405-0927, Nº. 14, 2000, págs. 53-80
• Idioma: español
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  • Changes in Devote Regard
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• Resumen

  • This essay is the result of a detailed research about the public perception of some archeological pieces in the National Museum of Mexico during the nineteenth century. Its objective is to study the different forms that the creation of public space may take in the aesthetic conscience, where the systematic order represents itself as the stage of reality. Since the eighteenth century, the institution of the museum introduces that order, defining also its perception, and builds the idea of the "scientific" as opposed to what is called "mythical" or "fictitious". Having accepted this, the Natural History Cabinet (created in 1790) and the so-called National Museum (1825-1910), formed systematic collections of differentiated objects of the votive images. This essay studies the contrasts that integrate the "modern gesture" of the cognitive differentiation, understood as a transition that goes from the devote to the curious look, specially from 1887 to 1940. In that period, a different devotion reappears in the halls of the museum-temple: the "place" where the citizen admires his ancestral origins through the recognition of his modern history. This is the place where the author identify the rational and national modernity that undertakes the distinction between myth and science, as well as between ancestors and citizens, from an objective observation.