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Displacing Caravaggio


Displacing Caravaggio

Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture

von: Francesco Zucconi

60,98 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 17.10.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319933788
Sprache: englisch

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<div>This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his <i>Sleeping Cupid</i> (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting <i>The Seven Works of Mercy</i> (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s 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 Caravaggio’s 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.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br></div>
1. Introduction.- 2. Humanitarian Archeology.- 3. Unstill Life.- 4. Pathos, Survival, and “Quasi Immanence”.- 5.&nbsp;On the Limits of the Virtual Humanitarian Experience.- 6. Caravaggio on Lampedusa.- 7. On Displacing.<br><div><br></div>
<b>Francesco Zucconi</b> is Assistant Professor at the IUAV University of Venice, Italy. He has been a Lauro de Bosis fellow at Harvard, USA, and a Marie Skłodowska-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.&nbsp;<br><div><br></div><div>Translated by <b>Zakiya Hanafi</b>, Independent Scholar, USA&nbsp; &nbsp;<br></div><div><br></div>
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his&nbsp;<i>Sleeping Cupid</i>&nbsp;(1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting&nbsp;<i>The Seven Works of Mercy</i>&nbsp;(1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s 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 Caravaggio’s 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.
<p>Translated by Zakiya Hanafi</p><p>Marks the first book to offer an archeology of “humanitarian visual culture”</p><p>Challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between the representation of suffering in the repertory of Western art and contemporary communication</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p>
<p></p><p>“Much more than a simple reportage, the originality of Zucconi’s approach lies in his nuanced exploration of how they have been involved metaphorically, as the aesthetic qualities that define the works of the Baroque master have been effectively remediated; or, as he argues in the book’s introduction and explores through a series of comparative case studies in the following six chapters, are in the process of being displaced in the crisis’ surrounding visual culture.” (Matthew D’Ambrosio Griffith, Harvard University)</p>

<p>“Zucconi proposes a theoretical standpoint through which a specific iconological use of Caravaggio, from art criticism to visual literacy, may help to analyze the current mediasphere of suffering and, therefore, those media images that inform our perception of traumatic events. By embracing “the notion of displacing as a theoretical and methodological paradigm for the humanities,” the author wisely points out one of the central themes in politics nowadays” (Gianluca Pulsoni for Flash Art)'</p>

“Connecting the current humanitarian crisis with the art of a baroque old master is a bold endeavour. It not only gives the museum pieces relevance for the outside world, but also shows the iconographic tools media use in their visual rhetoric. This shakes up both our complacency that relegates art to elitist enjoyment and our repetition-induced indifference to people dying, starving, and being displaced in front of our eyes. Zucconi makes art relevant again, and beauty socially useful.” (Mieke Bal, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands)<p></p><br><p></p>

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