Notes to understand the Lira Popular’s Images

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Tomás Cornejo

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Study about the images of the Chilean broadside literature, known as Lira Popular. The article discusses the relationship between the narrative character of most of the texts and the images, made o n purpose to illustrate or comment on these texts –aimed at a mostly illiterate public–, that lead to conceive the images as eminently referential. Paying attentionto the iconographic models of the woodcuts, however, they become related to images from official culture (presidential portraits), setting the mode in which most representative Lira Popular’s images constructed a language made of graphic molds able to represent a wid range of social types, easily recognizable to urban audiences of the time.

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Tomás Cornejo

Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Diego Portales.