School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM The Facultad de Filosofía y Letras ("School of Philosophy and Literature") or FFyL of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) administers eleven divisions of the humanities offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Department is one of the largest, and most renowned, literature faculties in the Spanish-speaking world; the Alma Mater of Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz and a number of other important figures in Latin American literature. The direct ancestor of Department was the High Studies National School, founded in 1910 by Justo Sierra as an attempt to establish graduate level degrees and research.
Mexican art be expressed in a mural in support of student movement's protests; the work became known as the "Mural Efímero" (or "Ephemeral Mural")" at UNAM". The third Independent Salon was staged in 1970. In 1976 "Fernando Gambao spearheads the organization of an exposition of abstract art entitled "El Geometrismo Mexicano Una Tendencia Actual"". "In an attempt to reassess ... post-1968 Mexican art, the Museum of Science and Art at UNAM" organized in 2007, the exhibition "La Era de la Discrepancia. Arte y cultura visual en México 1968-1997" In 1990 the exhibition "Mexico: Esplendor de Treinta Siglos", started its world tour at