HISTORY AND VISUAL ARTS

Abstract: This text presents reflecti

Abstract

This text presents reflections on the associations between History and Visual Arts, based on the concept of representation (CHARTIER, 1991; HALL, 2016). Even though each of these areas has its own way of analyzing aspects of human production, both, particularly when the perspective is Eurocentric, construct representations of the world: of the other – of Black people, of indigenous people, of women, of cultures. Furthermore, paintings, sculptures, architectural works can serve as important objects of memories, such as monuments, portraits, images of landscape and places, cemetery sculptures etc. Therefore, History and Visual Arts, thus seen, constitute important places of memory, produced for aesthetic enjoyment and to ensure that there will be no forgetting. The reflections present here also address the effects resulting from the ways in which individuals and groups are represented, or not, in history and the arts, and the uses of these areas for the construction of identities, as well as questioning the selections of what has been contemplated and was has been rendered invisible and, as a result, included in the agenda of movements demanding justice and racial equality.