A Discourse of American Ideological Resistance and Visual Rhetoric. Santiago Apostle and Quetzalcoatl In Saltillo Cathedral
This work shows the elements and symbols of the mesoamerican indigenous cosmovisions of the Cathedral building in Saltillo, Mexico, as semiotic-visual elements of a discourse of ideological resistance, before european economic, political and cultural dominance in New Spain. It is proposed that the b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Oxímora. Revista Internacional de Ética y Política |
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| Online Access: | http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/oximora/article/view/22346 |
| Summary: | This work shows the elements and symbols of the mesoamerican indigenous cosmovisions of the Cathedral building in Saltillo, Mexico, as semiotic-visual elements of a discourse of ideological resistance, before european economic, political and cultural dominance in New Spain.
It is proposed that the basis of the argumentation of this discourse are visual rhetorical figures distributed throughout the building, that appeal to the reconfiguration of symbols as devices of the memory of culture. |
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| ISSN: | 2014-7708 |