Keywords
secular icon
history
memory
Colombia
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Abstract
What is the relationship that images establish
with memory and history? In other words:
What is the function pictures have in a particular
narration of past events and, specially,
how can an image summarize this event and
be, almost, its mnemonic substitute? We want
to think of images, not only as a vehicle of
knowledge and historical memory, but also of a
(non-neutral) constructor of an individual and
collective look. Finally, the text aims to ask if
Colombians share a specific repertoire of images
of their recent past and, if so, question why
those images, and not any other, have prevailed.
In order to do this, we critically use the
concept of secular icon applied to an exercise carried out with a group of students.
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