%0 Journal Article %T "Im¨¢genes ocultas en la ciudad fronteriza": La simulaci¨®n de la producci¨®n art¨ªstica como relato clandestino %A Salazar Guti¨¦rrez %A Salvador %J Frontera norte %D 2011 %I El Colegio de la Frontera Norte %X the art of the act of observing has been eroded as a result of a global scene in which the empire of the image dominates the study of daily expressions. the current moment reveals a major contradiction: we encounter an immense multiplicity of visual expressions that dominate the daily scene which we increasingly lack the ability to observe, from a critical visual pedagogy, due to out atrophied vision. using a cultural approach to examine visual expressions, which in this article focus on the mural production on ciudad ju¨¢rez, and its relations and implications in a stage dominated by increasing violence and a loss of the sense of " being together "socializing", leads to an understanding of the political ethical and cultural implications that art acquires in this border city in the north of mexico. %K mural production %K expressive simulation %K ideology %K visual-critical pedagogy %K urban imaginary. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0187-73722011000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en