Proposals for reading visual images in history textbooks

Abstract

In this article I study the various proposals for reading practices of iconographic representations, which are found in history textbooks, from the late 1960s to the 1990s. I work more prominently with the books of authors Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Julierme by Abreu Costa, from the 1970s and 1980s. I propose that the acts of visuality in iconographic documents retain historicity and that the reading of images resulting from these acts is constructed through the cognitive interests of each era. I try to analyze practices of editorial composition of the times of the edition of the books, the forms of presentation of the exercises and the texts that present theoretical orientations suggested in the teachers manuals; seeking to unravel the paths that represent the transformations of visuality in discursive practice.