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