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Datos masivos para consumo masivo: las exposiciones de gráficos estadísticos diseñados por Francisco Mujica durante el cardenismo en México

Authors: Miguel Caballero;

Datos masivos para consumo masivo: las exposiciones de gráficos estadísticos diseñados por Francisco Mujica durante el cardenismo en México

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RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza los trabajos de propaganda que el arquitecto y arqueólogo Francisco Mujica Díez de Bonilla (1899–1979) llevó a cabo para el gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas durante sus últimos años (1937–1940). Específicamente, se estudia su propuesta de uso de gráficos estadísticos como medio de comunicación de masas para explicar las reformas de Cárdenas y promover la colaboración popular. Los gráficos se analizan en comparación con los murales con los que compartieron espacio de exhibición, en el contexto de la teoría estética y política de Mujica, así como de la historia de la estadística mexicana y las conexiones que un predecesor de Mujica hizo entre los gráficos y los códices mesoamericanos. El artículo argumenta que la obra propagandística de Mujica es representativa del momento de parteaguas histórico que la Revolución mexicana atravesaba, entre las audaces reformas de Cárdenas y la progresiva tecnocratización y burocratización. Abstract: This article studies the propaganda works designed by architect and archaeologist Francisco Mujica Díez de Bonilla (1899–1979) for president Lázaro Cárdenas during his last years of government (1937–1940). Specifically, it analyzes Mujica’s proposal to use statistical charts as a mean of mass communication to explain Cárdenas’s reforms and promote popular collaboration. Charts are discussed in comparison with the murals with which they shared exhibition spaces; in the context of Mujica’s aesthetic and political theory, his notion of the return of aesthetic forms and his ideal of “planification democracy”; as well as the history of Mexican statistics and the connections Mujica’s predecessors made between charts and Mesoamerican codices. The article argues that Mujica’s propaganda works are representative of a historical watershed in the history of the Mexican Revolution between Cárdenas’s daring reforms and the gradual process of technocratization and bureaucratization.

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