Imágenes de ciencia y tecnología en la construcción del imaginario colectivo tras la Revolución mexicana

Abstract

Muralism was supported by the revolutionary government in order to compose the political-educational discourse with a clearly definited orientation: to construct and spread features of national identity different from those of the Porfirian era that triggered the Mexican Revolution. This paper aims to examine the role of science and technology in the construction of a new collective imagination and to explain the nuances achieved by their representation in three emblematic buildings of the new order. Because these themes were infrequently represented, the proposed conclusion is that science and technology were introduced into some pictorial works due to their emerging benefits in Mexican social reality, but they did not comprise an important part of the artistic-didactic program of muralism.