%0 Journal Article %T Fontes visuais, cultura visual, hist¨®ria visual: balan£¿o provis¨®rio, propostas cautelares %A Meneses %A Ulpiano T. Bezerra de %J Revista Brasileira de Hist¨®ria %D 2003 %I Associa??o Nacional de Hist¨®ria - ANPUH %R 10.1590/S0102-01882003000100002 %X the aim of this article is to displace the historian's focus on visual sources (iconography, iconology) into a more rewarding treatment of visuality as an important dimension of social life and historical processes. after a survey of contributions brought in by art history, visual anthropology, visual sociology and visual culture studies, concerning visual records and visual regimes, the author introduces a few prerequisites for a visual history - intended not as a new academic feud, but as a set of strategic operational means of enhancing historical research in all its domains. %K visual history %K visual culture %K visual sources. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-01882003000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en