This article analyzes three visual works representing the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man attributed to Le Barbier: two paintings and one engraving. The article makes the hypothesis that one painting was executed shortly after the Declaration in August 1789, while the other was made after the engraving, dated November 5, 1790. Treating visual...
On August 19, 1925, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis published Naples in Frankfurter Zeitung. It is an essay about the Italian city, where they analyze the customs and cultural practices of the area through a peculiar method of image superimposition. It is common to interpret One-Way Street as the work in which Benjamin first approaches physiognomy a...
If allegory is fundamentally a way of reading and writing (in short, of think-ing), which, in a Christian key, is linked to personal salvation, this activity, in fact, cannot be obviously separated from the act of faith, nor in the fundamental desire of God, that is, that impulse that returns the human being to his perfection. The always renewed ha...
[ES] Una bandera es en principio una tela cosida y/o pintada en colores que representa usualmente a un grupo humano. Esa tela designa generalmente un rectángulo, es decir que una bandera se puede atender formalmente como un cuadro. Sin embargo, la formalidad de la bandera se ve afectada por la historia, la cultura, la economía y los hechos humanos ...
El principal objetivo de este artículo consiste en aportar nuevas perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas para el estudio del símil, el símil extendido y la alegoría con la teoría de la relevancia como principal instrumento. En segundo lugar, este marco teórico se aplica al análisis del símil extendido en Antagonía, de Luis Goytisolo. Se considera qu...
El presente artículo pretende argumentar cómo la narrativa de El palacio de la risa (1995) proyecta residuos alegóricos provocados por dispositivos de violencia. Estos, a su vez, se relacionan con la historia individual y nacional que envuelve al narrador. Dicha lectura se nutre de las teorías sobre la violencia de Byung-Chul Han (2016) y Wolfang...
[EN] The Polaroid images created by photographer and architect Gabriel Campuzano convey a sense of engagement with someone else s memories, of shared experience. The changes Campuzano brings to these familiar views of Le Corbusier s architecture constitute a kind of clinging, deforming overlay. This defamiliarisation supplants the security and cert...
El capítulo aborda las representaciones figuradas de la república en la prensa satírica republicana durante el Sexenio Democrático desde la Revolución de septiembre hasta la etapa de la Primera República. El texto analiza especialmente el tránsito de la alegoría republicana –la Marianne española– de lo ideal al terreno de la realidad del poder.
This paper sheds light on the allegorical vision developed by Alejandra Pizarnik throughout her poetry. Not only understanding allegory as a rhetorical resource with enormous imaginative potential, but, as a conceptual language capable of translating and communicating abstract ideas and images generated by a single focus, the “wind”. With the inten...
This article explores the concept of nation implicit in Leonardo Padura’s seventh novel starring detective Mario Conde, in which he deals with the resolution of a crime that occurred in Cuba’s pre-revolutionary past. The national appears as a flow of images that dialogues with history, where the nineteenth-century nation intervenes palimpsestically...
