Behind the Image, Beyond the Image
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abstract
The volume includes papers presented at the III International Conference of PhD students of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the State Institute for Art Studies of Moscow (Venice, 22-24 September 2021). The word ‘image’ derives from the Latin imago, a word that has many different meanings that go from ‘portrait’ to ‘ghost’, from ‘idea’ to ‘dream’, from ‘memory’ to ‘reflection’. We most commonly associate the word ‘image’ with a picture, but its etymology keeps reminding us of its infinite conceptual potential. In his famous book Behind the Image: The Art of Reading Paintings, Federico Zeri argues that there are infinite ways to observe the work of art as an image. But since the image is something that goes beyond its mere material and physical form and refers to the categories of perception and thought, the expression “beyond the image” encourages new formulations related to this polyvalent concept. The image, the imagination and the imaginable are the transversal categories that the papers collected in this volume aim to explore, inquiring the concept of image as a metaphor, a model, a method, a representation, a tool for a new understanding of reality.
Pseudomorphosis • Madonna del Fuoco • Moscow Olympic Games • Sport • Curatorial studies • Sam Durant • Engagement • Mirror • Mary Tibaldi Chiesa • Sculpture • Image theory • Russian opera • Exhibition set up • Art in public space • Landscape • Miraculous images • 1962 • Diplomatic gift • Constructivism • Paintings • Drawing • Plato • Ri-mediation • Architecture • European art • Russian European • France • Giovanni Baglione • Robert Smithson • Steve McQueen • Aesthetics • Iconology • Socially engaged art • Ecclesiology • Sport animation • 当代艺术 • Iconoclasm • Cinema • Lombardy • 刘永刚 • Religious metaphor • Photographic display • Banksy • Performative Languages • Response • Art market • Katie Mitchell • Image • Visual Culture Studies • Vittorio Gui • Xenia Stravinsky • Activation • Woodcut • Know thyself • Time • Media • Cultural tradition • Bologna • Society of Easel Painters • Informal art • Soviet art theory • Sedimentation • Participation • Theology • Dionysus • Xerox Actions • Burov • Animals • Baroque • Return to USSR • Soviet caricatures • The image of sport • Morazzone • Violin • Architecture representation • Pimenov • Holy fool • Situation • Theatre • Heidegger • Jacopo Ligozzi • Liu Yonggang • Saint Sebastian • Epiphany • La Scala • Photography in public space • Masculinity • Monuments • Art criticism • Italian postwar art • Memory • Miss Julie • Fifteenth century • Art and power • Small-sized paintings • Soviet animation • Modest Musorgsky • Hudinilson Jr • City of 20th century • Myth • Architecture exhibition • Franciscanism • Entropy • Seventeenth century • Toppled Monuments Archive • Music • Hagiography • History of collections • Visual • Kant • Robert Craft • Exhibition studies • Philosophy • Boris Asafyev • JR • Italy • Screen • Zeitbild • Khrushchev’s Thaw • Iconotext • Boris Godunov • Stage • Intermediality • Christiane Jatahy • Historiography • Grand Tour • Land Art • Pavel Lamm • Russian opera in Italy • Sketch • Oil sketches • Site-specific • Soviet criticism • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov • Black Lives Matter • Collecting in Rome • Re-iconocity of characters • Painting of souvenirs • Giorgio Vasari • Narcissus • Contemporary art • Rome • Politics • Self-image • Multidisciplinary • Khovanshchina • Word-picture relationship • Architecture theory • National identity • Exhibitions • Chinese Contemporary art • Allison Stewart • Epidemic • Igor Stravinsky