book
Imaginando América Latina: Historia y cultura visual, siglos XIX a XXI
Fecha
2017-08-15Registro en:
978-958-738-946-3
Editorial Universidad del Rosario, Escuela de Ciencias Humanas
Autor
Schuster, Sven
Liliana, Gómez-Popescu
Buenaventura, Alejandra
Hernández Quiñones, Óscar Daniel
Daniela, Prada
Ramírez Maldonado, Camila
Munar Espinosa, Lery Daniela
Gacha, Sebastián
Córdoba, Paulo
Cant, Anna
Pérez Carvajal, Andrés
Vigoya Arango, Laura Andrea
Mahecha Arango, Natalia
Hoth, Christiane
Institución
Resumen
Can images influence history? Are they true evidence of the past? This compilation appears in the light of the renewed interest showed by the discipline of history and human sciences in interpreting visual sources as productions that were intentionally elaborated and disseminated in specific times and spaces. Moving away from an innocent and contemplative view, the authors of the book, through their contributions, propose to place the social function of images at the center of their case analyses, which cover a broad set of Latin American processes that took place between the 19th and the 21st centuries in countries such as Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina. Thus, each chapter invites the reader to “visually think” about issues such as political propaganda, nation building, the assemblage of identities or collective memories, etc., based on the methodological assumption that suggests tracking images from their production to their reception, where they acquire multiple meanings in their respective presents, as well as in their current preservation status. Imagining Latin America is, then, an initiative open to different disciplinary perspectives that are not limited only to readings from historians. The twelve chapters included in this book seek to reflect on the capacity of the image to connect realities at global and local scales, insisting on demonstrating a double relationship between the historicity of the visual and the visuality of history.