In a collaborative work, academics Luis Ignacio Sáinz Chávez, Miguel Marín and Joaquín Díez-Canedo Flores made a visual tour of the sculptural and pictorial work of artist Federico Silva (Mexico City 1923). "It was in one of those interviews that arose the idea of making a text that collected the work of the teacher Silva and thus understand through his creations, the evolution of art in Mexico during the second half of the 20th century to present times. Contemporary of other noted muralists such as Siqueiros, Rivera and O'Higgins, Federico Silva formed an important part of the so-called 'ruptura' generation that transformed the artistic cannons that had been in vogue until the fifties, projecting new and original expressions with national identity into the future." (HKB Translation) --Page 9.