Abstract

FULTON, Christopher. Cuauhtémoc regained. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2008, n.36, pp.5-43. ISSN 0185-2620.

This essay continues the investigation of an earlier article, also published in this journal, by examining artistic representations of Cuauhtémoc in the post-revolutionary period, and especially after 1940, when the figure of the last Aztec king became widely and variously deployed as a political and cultural emblem. The essay will describe how in the post-revolutionary era internal contradictions, which were latent within the imagery, broke into the open and ignited controversy over the meaning and use of the Cuauhtémoc symbol.

Keywords : Cuauhtémoc; art; indigenism; nationalism; Edmundo O'Gorman; David Alfaro Siqueiros; Diego Rivera; José Vasconcelos.

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