Francesco Zucconi: Displacing Caravaggio

Cover: 9783319933771 | Displacing Caravaggio | Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture

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Beschreibung

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggiös works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggiös work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggiös attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.

Über den Autor

Francesco Zucconi is Assistant Professor at the IUAV University of Venice, Italy. He has been a Lauro de Bosis fellow at Harvard, USA, and a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie fellow at the Centre d'Histoire et de Théorie des Arts, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France, where he remains an associate member. He has written a number of books and articles on the theory of cinema, image theory and contemporary visual culture.

Translated by Zakiya Hanafi, Independent Scholar, USA

Zusammenfassung

Translated by Zakiya Hanafi

Marks the first book to offer an archeology of "humanitarian visual culture"

Challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between the representation of suffering in the repertory of Western art and contemporary communication

Draws from a number of on-going discussions in different fields of study that are rarely considered together: art history, theory of media, visual studies and postcolonial studies

Explores different media forms of humanitarian communication: from photography to the most recent devices of virtual reality cinema, through the tradition of lantern-slide lectures

Investigates the real likelihood of "displacing" the West's artistic heritage in order to develop a critical understanding of some of the most pressing problems of the contemporary scenario

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Humanitarian Archeology.- 3. Unstill Life.- 4. Pathos, Survival, and "Quasi Immanence".- 5. On the Limits of the Virtual Humanitarian Experience.- 6. Caravaggio on Lampedusa.- 7. On Displacing.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Bildende Kunst
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xi 244 S. 11 s/w Illustr. 23 farbige Illustr. 244 p. 34 illus. 23 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319933771
ISBN-10:	3319933779
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-93377-1
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Zucconi, Francesco
Übersetzung:	Hanafi, Zakiya
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Maße:	216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Francesco Zucconi
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.10.2018
Gewicht:	0,487 kg

Artikel-ID: 113673499