Historia gráfica
Subtitle: fotografías de la Academia de San Carlos, 1897-1940
By: [coordinación] Elizabeth Fuentes Rojas ; colaboradoras, Laura A. Corona Cabrera, Bertha Alicia Arizpe Pita, Norma Vázquez García.
Contributors: Fuentes Rojas, Elizabeth.; Corona Cabrera, Laura A.; Arizpe Pita, Bertha Alicia.; Vázquez García, Norma.; Academia Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico)
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Published: 2007
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789703229598
Subjects: Academia Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico) -- History; Academia Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico) -- History -- Pictorial works; Academia Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico) -- Photograph collections
Description: A major research study on the history and architecture of the former academic art school "Academia de San Carlos", and now the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM. The study is based on 130 unedited photographs taken between 1897 and 1940 that graphically document the neoclassic building and its decorative elements, the art masterpieces exhibited in its galleries and the academic and artistic life of the first art school in the Americas. It was and is one of the major learning institutions for art in Mexico. Includes reproductions of photographs taken by Manuel Buenbad, Efisio Caboni, Antonio Garduño, Agustín Jimenez, José C. Damian, Manuel F. Alvarez, Petronilo Monroy and many more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-249).