Displacing Caravaggio : Art, media, and humanitarian visual culture / Francesco Zucconi ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.
2018
N8217.H78 Z83 2018
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Title
Displacing Caravaggio : Art, media, and humanitarian visual culture / Francesco Zucconi ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.
Author
Zucconi, Francesco, author.
ISBN
9783319933788 (electronic book)
3319933787 (electronic book)
9783319933771
3319933779
3319933787 (electronic book)
9783319933771
3319933779
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (345 pages)
Call Number
N8217.H78 Z83 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
701.03
709.945
709.945
Summary
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's 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 several 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 and insightful inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.
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Translated from the Italian.
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's 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 several 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 and insightful inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's 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 several 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 and insightful inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Hanafi, Zakiya, 1959- translator.
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Displacing Caravaggio. Art, media, and humanitarian visual culture.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.