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A Driving Force

On the Rhetoric of Images and Power

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Angelica Bertoli    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

Giulia Gelmi    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

Andrea Missagia    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

Maria Novella Tavano    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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The volume comprises a selection of papers presented at the 5th Postgraduate International Conference organized by the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, 4-6 October 2023): A Driving Force. On the Rhetoric of Images and Power. In the introduction to his well-known The Power of Images (1989), David Freedberg claims not only that images hold power over us, but they are also, inevitably, related to ‘power’ itself. Art is therefore a powerful and non-neutral tool. Its forms and expressions influence and manipulate the realm of the real. Throughout human history, the artist’s creative power gave form, substance, and meaning to otherwise inert matter. This process turned the artist into a demiurge. Furthermore, once images are given their final form, they circulate and live a life of their own. The 5th Postgraduate International Conference was aimed at investigating the rhetorical nature of the intersection between image and power. In 1979 Yuri Lotman claimed that “rhetoric” is the displacement of the structural principles of a given semiotic sphere into another semiotic sphere. The Tartu semiologist’s approach implies that the “correlation with different semiotic systems gives rise to a rhetorical situation in which a powerful source of elaboration of new meanings is contained”. In exploring these meanings from a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume investigates two main themes: the power of the image, as an autonomous device, endowed with a pervasive and persuasive character; the image as a form for representing power which addresses questions concerning the sense of authority, and its negation, namely a sense of dissidence and counter-narrations.

Published
Dec. 22, 2023
Language
EN
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-771-5

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5

Copyright: © 2023 Angelica Bertoli, Giulia Gelmi, Andrea Missagia, Maria Novella Tavano. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Table of contents

Introductory remarks
Dec. 22, 2023
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Self-Definition and Self-Questioning: Image-Making as a Political Tool
Image and Imagery in the Age of the Directory (1795-99)
The Political Symbolism of the Revolution between Old and New Horizons
Giacomo Carmagnini   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Reworking National History
The Representation of Power and its Subsequent Overturning in Relation to Postcolonial Art in Italy
Jacopo De Blasio   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Artistic Expression and Political Power in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice
Reflections of Venetian Cittadini Originari
The Zamberti Family: A Case Study
Anna Bernante   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Beyond the Image of Submission
At the Origin of the Distorted Portrait of the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos (r. 1354-91) in the Latin West
Giulia D'Albenzio   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Words For/Against Power
Pietro Aretino’s Poetical Devices as Demystification of the Present
Andrea Golfetto   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Me, Myself and I: Reframing the Concepts of Identity and Otherness
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Deconstructing the Performance of Labour in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research
Fabiola Fiocco   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Gendered Allegories of Power and Warfare: Warrior Women as Personifications in Early Modern Art
Elisa Stafferini   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Art, Patronage, and Prestige: Visual Representations of Power in the Modern Era
Protected and Protecting
Dual Relations between the Sapieha Family and the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Kodeń
Dagmar Vysloužilová   
Dec. 22, 2023
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An Exercise of Style and Power
Hans Holbein the Younger and the Painted Facade of the Hertenstein House in Lucerne (1517)
Sandes Dindar   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face: On the Image as Social Response and Counterculture
Countercultural Images and Technological Visions in the Italian Alternative Press Around 1977
Sara Molho   
Dec. 22, 2023
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The Power of Contemporary Chinese Photography: Capturing Moments, Shaping Perspectives
Fu Sen   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Unveiling Perception: Altered Reality Through Surveillance and AI Imagery
Countersurveillance Aesthetic
Resistance Through Wearable Technologies
Irene Calvi   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Poor Power Images in the Work of Hito Steyerl
Jolanda Wessel   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Symbolism and Identity in Ancient Societies: Negotiating Power Through Material Culture
The Power of Statues in Byzantium
The Wooden Effigy of Saint George in Omorfokklisia as a Talismanic Device
Elena De Zordi   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Interdisciplinary Practices and Moving Images
The Object Looks Back: Paraesthetic Vision in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu and Optic Nerve
Mansi Tiwari   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Unseen Memories
Exploring Imagery in Jeremy Deller’s We’re Here Because We’re Here and the 14-18 NOW Project
Angelica Bertoli   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Cultural Institutions and Power: On the Relationship Between Museums and Politics
The Rise of the Sursock Museum
The Power of the Image to Create an Image of Power
Ashraf Osman   
Dec. 22, 2023
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‘Il cappellino all’ultima moda’
The Impossible Exhibition of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Turin
Maria Novella Tavano   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Let Me Be Your Eyes: Investigations into the Phenomenology of Control
Aby Warburg and the Political Iconography of Fascism: An Analysis of Symbols of Power
Margherita Piccichè   
Dec. 22, 2023
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Shifting Roles
The Imperial Folk Arts and Crafts Revival’s Narratives at the Second All-Russian Kustar’ Exhibition (1913)
Giulia Gelmi   
Dec. 22, 2023
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