Resumen de Museo y grafía: observación y lectura de los objetos
This essay proposes an historical interpretation of the disciplinary process of the modern exhibits in museums. In modern display I have detected the aesthetic distinction introduced to separate the modern enlightenment project from its remote part: the Celtic, Saxon, Romans as Mexicans, Mayans and Aimaras ancestors. This distinction operates in a literary world which comprises the historic narration, acting as though it were the representation of a mythical original world. The originality of the difference between the present of the idea of "the origin of the Fatherland" and its past (material remains and their successive written interpretations) falls within the recourse of representation: the museographic operation and its communicative action. This article presents an exercise in contrasting two distinct experiences within enlightened modernity in two culturally different countries: The United States and Mexico. This essay pretends to identify the generalities which characterize the elements that take part in the fragmental space of the silent observation, so to speak, represented by the sacred institution of the public museum.
