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Volume 7 | Miscellanea | A Driving Force

A Driving Force

On the Rhetoric of Images and Power

open access | peer reviewed
    a cura di
  • 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 Gendered bodiesAby WarburgDistorted portraitNew media installation artTechnologyDissidenceContemporary artSexJan Fryderyk SapiehaPoor power ImagesKodeńCittadini originariRussian EmpireScuole GrandiFrench RevolutionSymbolsSaint GeorgeVeniceFolkloreOccupational realismCountersurveillance FashionPoor power imagesSalon d'AutomneLabour of loveImage and powerVisual CultureHistoriographical biasPoliticsMacedoniaPostcolonialismPower representationVisual identityNew FormalismParaestheticsPortrait de la jeune fille en feuSpeculative designWoodLucerneAutotheoryDecolonialityGeneral intellectPublic sphereSemiologyLatin faithCoronation of Miraculous ImagesDesignGeographical personificationsRhetoricModern Art HistoryNicolas Ibrahim SursockSalon dʼAutomnePalazzo Madama, TorinoNational imageKustarSixteenth-century Italian artVenice BiennaleNew Media Installation ArtPalaiologan RenaissanceSurveillancePower of the imagesRevolutionary festivalPietro AretinoPainted facadeModern art historyPost-representationVittorio VialeRenaissanceBeirutPortrait de la jeune fille en fewByzantine EmpireSursock MuseumFascismArtsImage theoryHolbeinOur Lady of KodeńItalySecond Post War PeriodAllegoryA/traversoByzantine sculptureRussian stylePolitical iconographyMetaphorWearable technologiesGazeUn’Ambigua UtopiaSocially engaged artAuthorityNeoliberal imaginaryReligious submissionByzantine empireCountersurveillance fashionPolish-Lithuanian CommonwealthFeminist artPowerImageWarfareThe Bureau of Melodramatic ResearchAlternative pressOptic NerveArts and craftsDirectoryPolitical iconologySpeculative DesignMaterialismPost-RepresentationExhibitionThe Peggy Guggenheim CollectionCrossmappingPropagandaSapieha familyDroneIconographyMelodramaJohn V PalaiologosLebanonVisual culture

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

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