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Investig@rte: the national network of art libraries in Mexico*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Elsa Barberena*
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Posgrado en Bibliotecnología y Estudios de la Información, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Circuito D. Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad UniversitariaDelegación Coyoacán CP 04510, México, DF 04510, México
Carmen Block*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito D. Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán CP 04510, México DF, México
Elda Mónica Guerrero*
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Río Churubusco 79 esq. Calz de Tlalpan CP 04220, México DF, México
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Abstract

Mexican art, dating back to 2500 BC, is enormously rich and stylistically varied, the product of the country’s indigenous, ‘mestizo’ [mixed race] and Mexican cultures, which range from Olmec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec and Mixtec, to Mayan and Aztec. During the colonial period, the influence of European art was added, brought via Spain, and at the same time Catholicism prevailed over pre-Hispanic polytheism. Mexican culture as it is known today emerged at the end of the Spanish colonial period and its wealth is amply demonstrated in the content of the writings and other documents found in Mexican libraries today.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2005

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Footnotes

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Revised version of paper presented to the Section of Art Libraries at the World Library and Information Congress, 70th IFLA General Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2004.

References

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