Codexs

So? What is a codex, why did people destry them? or why are many of them far from México. Well, it is not so strange if we notice that many of mexican artcraft (or prehispanic art) belongs to some european museum or richman, a simple example: Moctezuma's plume ("penacho" in spanish) wich is in Germany.
However, might they keep it better than us it's good for them to have it, we need to know more about the creations of our past to maintain and use it in our present.

Going back to codexs, we will try to explain a little bit more about them (hopefully know where are they now) in this simple investigation activity.

Instructions:
- Make click here.
- Comment acording to the instructions explained there.
- Refresh this page and see how your work is published in this page.


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Enjoy.

In a tarnation

Henry Ford Hospital - 1932

"Nunca pinte sueños ni pesadillas, pinte mi propia realidad"

Frida Kahlo.

It is not easy to talk (writte) about mexican art, nor mexican culture. The main reazon is because we are already living in this mexican "envvironment" in wich we (sometimes) belive we already know the useful part of our history - ideology- society- culture. 

Yes: we are the result of the mixture of many races.

Yes: we have nearly 200 of being an independent country.

Yes: we have many, MANY natural resources.

Yes: we have very particular aestetic concepts.

Yes: we live in a country that is very violent, that should be speaking in english, that is not as great as it could be. 

Maybe all those "yes" are the reazon for me to choose the quote by Frida Kahlo (one of my favorite mexican painters - women yet not the best of all of them) in wich, I think, she describes how we will be relating our selves with mexico douring this course:  Nightmares and  dreams mixed up in a reality that will involve aztecs, hispaniards, indians and french people, publishers, witters, famous and infamous (that means not without fame, but with fame of bein mean or dangerous for our country) personalities, and a lot of different ingredients. 

If tarnation is a place where you have to make a choice, here the tarnation I put to you: enhage this course, read, work. I will do so...will you?