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Volume 7 | Miscellanea | A Driving Force

A Driving Force

On the Rhetoric of Images and Power

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  • Angelica Bertoli - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Giulia Gelmi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Andrea Missagia - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Maria Novella Tavano - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email

Abstract

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.

Keywords Byzantine Empire • Portrait de la jeune fille en feu • Arts • Feminist art • Metaphor • Modern art history • The Peggy Guggenheim Collection • Saint George • Arts and crafts • Image • Byzantine sculpture • Venice • Geographical personifications • Salon dʼAutomne • Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock • Propaganda • National image • Our Lady of Kodeń • Post-Representation • Visual culture • Painted facade • Neoliberal imaginary • Postcolonialism • Public sphere • Wood • Gaze • Countersurveillance Fashion • Macedonia • Melodrama • Iconography • Cittadini originari • Occupational realism • Paraesthetics • Revolutionary festival • Decoloniality • Design • Modern Art History • Political iconology • Russian Empire • Russian style • Rhetoric • Image theory • Optic Nerve • Visual identity • Sex • Fascism • Un’Ambigua Utopia • Distorted portrait • Directory • Kustar • Lucerne • Symbols • Allegory • John V Palaiologos • New Media Installation Art • Drone • Autotheory • Crossmapping • Vittorio Viale • A/traverso • Contemporary art • Byzantine empire • Gendered bodies • Poor power images • Portrait de la jeune fille en few • Coronation of Miraculous Images • Venice Biennale • Historiographical bias • Countersurveillance fashion • Exhibition • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth • Speculative Design • Wearable technologies • New Formalism • Palazzo Madama, Torino • Pietro Aretino • Image and power • Folklore • Sursock Museum • Labour of love • Power • Salon d'Automne • Poor power Images • Power representation • New media installation art • Holbein • Socially engaged art • Renaissance • Religious submission • Latin faith • Materialism • Second Post War Period • Visual Culture • The Bureau of Melodramatic Research • Aby Warburg • Sixteenth-century Italian art • French Revolution • Surveillance • Jan Fryderyk Sapieha • General intellect • Alternative press • Warfare • Authority • Scuole Grandi • Technology • Kodeń • Palaiologan Renaissance • Beirut • Political iconography • Dissidence • Lebanon • Post-representation • Power of the images • Semiology • Sapieha family • Speculative design • Politics • Italy

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-771-5 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2023 | Lingua en

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.

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