Image warp

Contributions to the teaching of history

Abstract

Tearing down bronze and placing heavy sculptures to bite the asphalt, while biographies of well-known personalities are questioned, are part of this contemporary debate on history, memory and the forms of transmission of the national past. At this juncture, the image and all that is associated with it is the protagonist for movements and actions that achieve global coverage in a convulsive moment. It is precisely the analysis of the image that encourages historian Carlos A. Flórez López to undertake a careful analysis of the usefulness of the image and iconography as part of history, as well as its forms of transmission, study, teaching and approach. Guided by the contributions and theory contained in works that have previously dealt with the subject in depth, Flórez undertakes an interesting reflection on the importance of the image and what its study can contribute to the knowledge and work of historiography.