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.
Contemporary art • Situation • Grand Tour • Sport • Soviet art theory • Black Lives Matter • Seventeenth century • Soviet caricatures • Sport animation • Masculinity • Sketch • Saint Sebastian • Pavel Lamm • Philosophy • Screen • Epiphany • Pimenov • Mary Tibaldi Chiesa • Miss Julie • Visual Culture Studies • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov • Memory • Narcissus • Photographic display • 当代艺术 • Return to USSR • Plato • European art • Zeitbild • History of collections • Steve McQueen • Image • Boris Godunov • Giorgio Vasari • Igor Stravinsky • Hagiography • Dionysus • Visual • Xerox Actions • Art in public space • Participation • Informal art • Multidisciplinary • The image of sport • Iconoclasm • Small-sized paintings • Self-image • Modest Musorgsky • Giovanni Baglione • Oil sketches • Historiography • Sculpture • Epidemic • Photography in public space • Russian opera • Bologna • Socially engaged art • Word-picture relationship • Religious metaphor • Time • Moscow Olympic Games • Collecting in Rome • Art market • Exhibition set up • Ecclesiology • Hudinilson Jr • France • Liu Yonggang • Lombardy • Kant • La Scala • Aesthetics • Katie Mitchell • Robert Smithson • Art and power • Intermediality • Exhibition studies • Sedimentation • Baroque • Theology • Performative Languages • Sam Durant • Re-iconocity of characters • Chinese Contemporary art • Fifteenth century • Ri-mediation • Franciscanism • Woodcut • 1962 • Italian postwar art • Soviet animation • National identity • Paintings • Music • Rome • Christiane Jatahy • Constructivism • Land Art • 刘永刚 • Entropy • Toppled Monuments Archive • Jacopo Ligozzi • Robert Craft • Miraculous images • Response • Pseudomorphosis • Landscape • Image theory • Mirror • Architecture • Know thyself • Cultural tradition • City of 20th century • Politics • Exhibitions • Drawing • Italy • Cinema • Curatorial studies • Khrushchev’s Thaw • JR • Holy fool • Diplomatic gift • Engagement • Art criticism • Allison Stewart • Activation • Site-specific • Vittorio Gui • Boris Asafyev • Xenia Stravinsky • Iconology • Morazzone • Architecture representation • Burov • Media • Madonna del Fuoco • Banksy • Monuments • Theatre • Architecture theory • Animals • Russian European • Myth • Painting of souvenirs • Society of Easel Painters • Violin • Soviet criticism • Khovanshchina • Heidegger • Architecture exhibition • Stage • Iconotext • Russian opera in Italy