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Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito
Summary
Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito (English: Oaxaca in history and myth) is a mural created by Arturo García Bustos (1926-2017). García Bustos was "an artist dedicated to the humanistic struggles and liberal ideals that he expressed profoundly in his art." He painted the mural between May 1978 and November,1980 in the Palacio de Gobierno in Oaxaca. Today the location is officially known as the Museo del Palacio Universum, but it is commonly referred to as the Palacio de Gobierno. It is located in Oaxaca de Juárez, México, known in English as Oaxaca City.
A pamphlet distributed to attendees at the inauguration described the mural as a "mapamundi oaxaqueño" or a Oaxacan worldmap. The mural is a visual history of Oaxaca from prehistoric times to modern times. The images selected and not selected in a visual history are key to the final message. Bustos focused on images of the liberal traditions and reform in his interpretation of the history of Oaxaca, largely leaving out those who liberal ideas and also played important roles in Oaxacan and Mexican history. This article cites academic research and government publications, with the later being prone to perpetuating what has been called "mithified" history.
In the artist's words:
“Cuando pinté la escalera monumental del Palacio de Gobierno de Oaxaca sentí que lo que había que revelar era la historia que contenían esos corredores por los que habían transitado muchos de los creadores de nuestra historia patria.“
In translation:
“When I painted the monumental staircase of the Government Palace of Oaxaca, I felt that what had to be revealed was the history that those corridors contained through which many of the creators of our national history had passed."
Many of the individuals portrayed on the mural did not literally climb the steps and pass through the corridors where the mural now depicts their history, as the artist suggests, but they did shape the history of Oaxaca and even Mexico.
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