vol. 4 núm. 1: discursos visuales y sociedad

The present work seeks to make explicit the relationships between cathedrals and libraries. This is a question of recognizing the philosophical-literary potential of a nuclear category: space. We start from the formulation of a set of concerns that are substantively inspired by the fictional creations of Borgian literature. Our interest seeks to explore through a reflexive exercise around the Borgian narrative (mainly in the story and the essay), the relationship between philosophy, literature and spirituality, domains of humanistic knowledge, and activities deeply related to life and thought. We cannot deny that the intersections of these messages travel through the most egregious and authentic cultural devices that man has been able to create: books, mother spaces –this is said in Plato’s voice in the Timaeus– that provide for all that produces an Origin (arché) of meaning, culture, reflexivity, etc.

The present article analyzes from a historical-anthropologic perspective cinema as vehicle in which there are related of direct or indirect form the (state) power and history (official history) in the representation of the Venezuelan aborigen during the decade of the 80s, using the notion of history of Gaskell (1996) who understands it as “the speech elaborated by the historians and not the past”, and what by Pablo Iglesias (2013) points out when he outlines that “cinema has a political crucial role as mediating of the imaginary group at the moment of constructing identities”. For this a critical analysis of the speech was done on the indigenous Venezuelan people contained in the movies: Caballo salvage (1981), Orinoko, nuevo mundo (1984) Ya-koo (1985), Cubagua (1987) and Amérika, terra incognita (1988) in the light of the ideas that were stimulated about these indigenous people since the Venezuelan State

As an objective this ‘state of the art’ article will identify the fundamentals and lines of research of the field of communication and sports, starting from the revision of studies and reflections carried out by some social and human science disciplines, including communication and journalism. As methodology it is applied the documentary or secondary research method, within the qualitative approach, in order to examine 81 bibliographical references. The results and discussion part is about how the documents revision was done, which allowed: 1) to point out the subjects from social and human sciences which have studied sports the most, and to determine the contribution they have made to the creation and development of the field of communication and sports; 2) to identify four great lines of research (sport community, sport and identity, sportive relationships, and future sport) with which it is possible to carry out an integrative analysis of the sports phenomena; 3) to identify which are some of the main academic studies in Latin America, Europe, North America, and Oceania (Australia specially) which represent and establish the field of commutation and sports

The contemporary Western thought visually represented through the European art develops maximum complexity in the first decades of the twentieth century, in major cities like London, Paris or Berlin, where transforming positions are consolidated into the aesthetics, also the way of perception is different from the precepts of the nineteenth century traditional Academy of Art. Colombian artists are permeable to these changes and the European model is a strong influence in Colombian social behavior in the first half of the last century. Two artists, who work in the twenties and thirties, apply conceptually modern visual characteristics based on cutting-edge ideas of European art, appropriating concepts in the local context and exercising in the middle of production, the office of design graphic, generating unique and completely original visual manifestations