Imagens em diálogo: cultura visual no Brasil e México em perspectiva comparada
The purpose of this article is to determine the movement of images and visual culture appearance of a political between Mexico and Brazil the 1920s and 1930s. Search examine in particular were as common visual repertoires between the two countries both in the production of images uploaded with a rhetoric of political engagement as some pictures that a first glance could pass for Uncompromising but which contributed to the construction of political imagery. Although my intention is not an exhaustive analysis imagetics find out different media such as photos printed in newspapers and in Magazines, posters, engravings and other artistic expressions that subsidize the movement of aesthetic and political ideas. Part of the hypothesis that although the difficulties of exchanges (language, distance and lack of greater contact between its artists and intellectuals) was an exchange of proposals especially between political and cultural networks of sociability of artists markedly under the left politics.
Fontes visuais, cultura visual, história visual: balanço provisório, propostas cautelares
The aim of this article is to displace the historian's focus on visual sources (iconography, iconology) into a more rewarding treatment of visuality as an important dimension of social life and historical processes. After a survey of contributions brought in by Art History, Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology and Visual Culture Studies, concerning visual records and visual regimes, the author introduces a few prerequisites for a Visual History - intended not as a new academic feud, but as a set of strategic operational means of enhancing historical research in all its domains.
Preface to the book A Skeptical Introduction to Visual Culture
Last year members of the editorial board of the journal of visual culture were asked for brief statements about the state of the discipline. My contribution, which follows, was framed, Borges-fashion, as the Preface to an imaginary book. In the months since I submitted the Preface, I have begun to think more seriously about actually writing such a text. Further ruminations, along with sketches for chapters, are on my website, www.jameselkins.com.