Research Questions (v1.0)

1) Descriptive analysis: How was Ché depicted throughout his lifetime? What does the Ché image consist of? What characteristics of the image have changed throughout time? What characteristics have changed with the transmission of the image across national and cultural boundaries?

2) Interpretive analysis: What meanings were included in the depictions of Ché throughout his lifetime? What elements of the Ché image allow it to speak to interpretants as universally as it does? To what degree, if any, does the image change in order to accommodate new interpretants? If this does occur, how is accommodation achieved?

3) Critical analysis: How has the original Ché image been reinterpreted by its observers through time and space? How does an image birthed out of revolutionary socialism get co-opted by consumer-culture?