The concept of monument in the map of 1942. Ibagué, Colombia.

Andrés E Francel-Delgado,Claudia Uribe-Kaffure

doi:10.1590/0001-3765202120191454

Abstract

The beginning of the concept of architectural monument in Colombia is in the laws from the late XIX century and early XX century. We recompose the international context through the technic of aero photography, used by the Military Geographical Institute during the Second World War and the consequent tensions between U.S. and the powerful nations of the axis in relation to Colombia and Brazil in Latin America. The Liberal Party emerges like an ideology that tried to reorganise the country through the establishment of education and control the soil. This party negotiated a pact to stop the Colombian-Peruvian war 1932-1933, and signed the Roerich Pact in 1935 to protect the monuments. Therefore, the 1942 plan is the end of a process of mapping the national territory and the generation of criteria about cultural heritage in the first half of XX century, and the base to study how it affected the protection of architectural monuments up to date.

Highlights

Maps are political instruments because they have a porpoise derived from the interest of a person, community or institution (Díaz Ángel et al 2010)
The 1942 plan is the end of a process of mapping the national territory and the generation of criteria about cultural heritage in the first half of XX century, and the base to study how it affected the protection of architectural monuments up to date
We found three linked maps to Ibague 1942 those are the Bogotá plan of 1938, Lima 1935 and São Paulo 1930

Summary

Introduction

Maps are political instruments because they have a porpoise derived from the interest of a person, community or institution (Díaz Ángel et al 2010). Maps are testimonies of the transformation of the information between the physic and perceived reality (Schimalski 2001, Ratajski 1977). That means that the reality changes in relation to the modification of thought in every moment of the history. The map is a cognitive space for the production of thought about the space (Girardi 2009). The study of maps implies to analyse its artistic graphic technic, and its political administrative purposes. The analysis of the 1942 map starts in the recognition of similarities with other maps in a determined context: the similarities in technic and graphic conventions, and the recognition of the cultural heritage

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