Article ID: CBB501399578

Building the Nation of the Future, One Waiting Room at a Time: Hospital Murals in the Making of Modern Mexico (2015)

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Mid-twentieth century Mexican hospitals – the buildings themselves and their interior and exterior walls – became stages that depicted national hopes and aspirations. Hospitals and clinics became ideal spaces that married science and medicine with the state’s version of a triumphant social revolution. Visitors and patients to hospital waiting rooms, lobbies and auditoriums would see, indeed be surrounded by, depictions of the complicated hopes placed on science and medicine as interpreted by politicians, architects, and artists. Hospital walls became contested spaces where art depicted Mexico’s embrace of modern technology and medical practices while also showcasing, in vivid color, citizens challenging the government’s broken revolutionary promises, especially the right of all to health and social security.

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Authors & Contributors
Pursell, Carroll W.
Teresa Ordorika Sacristán
Mona Jimenez
Wellum, Caleb
Sherry Miller Hocking
Bess, Michael K.
Concepts
Technology and art
Technology and government
Technology and culture
Hospitals and clinics
Technology and society
Technology and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Mexico
United States
Institutions
Centro Nacional de las Artes
Atoms for Peace 1983 Washington, DC
Manicomio General La Castañeda (Psychiatric Hospital)
Hospital de San Pedro (Puebla, Mexico)
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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