FIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE MEXICAN ART AT NINETEENTH CENTURY (1859-1887)

In this article four paintings study and a sculptural monument, executed between 1859 and 1887, that alternative models represent to shape on idea of Mexico like notion. Two examples of allegorical representation are analyzed in which the were shaped the complementary slight knowledge of "cultural notion" and "politcal notion". Then, two plastic celebrations of Hidalgo and Cuouhtemoc, central figures of imaginary epic the Mexican. And, finally, an interpretation of the native territory turned into landscape to give to body to the myth of the national unit by means of the rhetorical resource of pars pro toto. One emphasizes therefore the contribution of the visual arts to the definition process, joint and diffusion of an imaginary national.