Un blog para la imagen alegórica de Cuba
Si se concede generalmente que los estados nacionales son "nuevos" e "históricos", las naciones a las que dan una expresión política presumen siempre de un pasado inmemorial, y miran un futuro ilimitado, lo que es aún más importante. La magia del nacionalismo es la conversión del azar en destino. Anderson, Benedict. Comunidades Imaginadas. Reflexiones Sobre … Continuar leyendo El nacionalismo: el azar en destino
The "political design" of allegorical representation lay in its ambition to communicate visual narratives that reflected political principles and events; following a well-known code, metaphors were shaped from objects that could attract the imagination and the eyes of viewers and express the values and virtues held up as the slogans of a regime Baecque, Antoine … Continuar leyendo The political design of the allegory
Allegory expressed a crucial visual narrative: it told the story of political power through metaphor, through a figurative correspondence between material things and the discourse of ideas. Baecque, Antoine De. “The Allegorical Image of France , 1750-1800 : A Political Crisis of Representation.” Representations, no. 47, 1994, pp. 111–43