From time to time is given, at least in my days, the fact that a text read by chance meets an unexpected image, and together complete a new idea or stronger than moves deeper than the two separate pieces. That happened this week when a labor issue, I sent the text of a note from the New York Times entitled A Widening Gap Erode Argentina's Egalitarian Image, in which the journalist Larry Rohter talks about the loss of the dream of egalitarian society in Argentina after the crisis.
After visiting the Malba me reunion with the 1968 book The family worker, Oscar Bony, resignificada to be in the context of an Argentine esposición on the Art in'60,'70 and'80 (as this work is part from the permanent collection and is located in an area that usually do not come back to visit when I go to the museum).
The theme of the gap between classes he had heard many times, but to return to see this work in the context of the 60s, and recalling the text that had read, I felt a terrible sadness for what might have been. The expression of the father, somewhat resigned, and the mother, devout son who studies made me think of my parents, both very humble family who came to be doctors through public education and the fact that the salary of a worker reaches for the basic needs ...
It is not my intention to do any kind of political criticism, just take a moment to reflect on this that really touched me.
If you know English, I recommend that you read the article. Quote a part does not do justice.
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