Imágenes nacionalistas de la Guerra Civil Española: un análisis crítico con base en la Gramática del design visual

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss two nationalist images of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, based on the Grammar of Visual Design and the contributions of Hodge and Kress, (1988); Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996; 2006) Kress, (2010). The metafunction of the GDV worked on is the narrative representational metafunction, analysing the relationships between the participants in the image itself (action and reaction) and using visual literacy, Cassany (2010). I highlight the importance of reading and interpreting images, which are the selected covers of two nationalist books by the author Mauricio Karl. I analyse the existing resources used by him to create them and the possible meanings they generate, pointing out the possibility of working multimodal texts in Spanish classes for secondary education, from an oriented perspective.