The new official history in Venezuela and its graphic expression in urban spaces

Resumo

The objective of this essay is to reflect on the new official Venezuelan history and its graphic expression in urban spaces, starting from the thesis that a new historical culture is being faced while there is a new proposal to relate to the past, a re-elaboration accompanied of new social agents and of new media, such as mural painting, which represents for the Venezuelan case a novel way of assuming the practice of public history. It is concluded that the new official history walks in the opposite direction to the processes of appropriation of history by multiple groups and social actors; denies the possibility of opening a discussion about the country's problems and the interpretations that mark Venezuelan history. The historical truth is defined from power, and the way to research or produce any historical discourse is to endorse the interpretive canon made official by the Bolivarian socialist proposal. The historian is compelled to interpret from a political commitment, tied to the contingencies of the Bolivarian socialist project, which starts from the uniqueness of knowledge, typical of Marxist thought. Regarding the artistic creation that discloses the new history, an attempt is made to obtain a saturation tending to detonate attitudes that facilitate the control of the masses, starting from the construction of an urban network of messages that lead to following the president and his decisions. The images would help to establish relationships that make understandable and generate empathy with the socialist historical discourse. From an anthropological perspective