A bioethical interpretation of the Osaka Murals
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https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-941Keywords:
Osaka murals, expo '70, bioethics, technoscience, anthropology, ethnography, muralism, RuptureAbstract
Introduction: In the history of art in Mexico, two periods can be identified in the 20th century: in the first half the Mexican School of Painting, and in the second half the Rupture generation. An emblematic collective work of the Rupture is the Osaka exhibition 70. Methodology: The artist's work is analyzed as a peculiar form of anthropology, particularly ethnography. A hermeneutical analysis of the plastic work from bioethics is proposed. Results: The Osaka Murals are 11 large-format contributions, with titles that reflect problems of the impact of the techno-scientific development of the most developed countries on the less developed ones. 1970 coincides with the birth of a new field of knowledge, bioethics, interested in topics similar to those treated by these plastic artists. Discussion: Each one of the Osaka Murals shows a problem that bioethics has analyzed in its beginnings, coinciding with the Exhibition, or in subsequent decades. Conclusions: The artist can effectively act as an interpreter of culture and the work produced can have different interpretations, such as the one that has been done here from bioethics.Downloads
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