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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 MelodramaSocially engaged artFascismPublic sphereRenaissanceByzantine EmpireThe Peggy Guggenheim CollectionCoronation of Miraculous ImagesModern art historyLatin faithAuthorityJan Fryderyk SapiehaNew FormalismByzantine empireVittorio VialeOptic NerveMetaphorVisual cultureHolbeinPolish-Lithuanian CommonwealthTechnologyArtsSpeculative DesignMaterialismNew media installation artCrossmappingAllegoryFeminist artWearable technologiesVenice BiennaleA/traversoOccupational realismPostcolonialismLucerneRussian styleSemiologyDirectoryGazePowerPainted facadeImage and powerSalon dʼAutomneRhetoricThe Bureau of Melodramatic ResearchRussian EmpireDroneWoodSixteenth-century Italian artSecond Post War PeriodPortrait de la jeune fille en feuFrench RevolutionPower representationNew Media Installation ArtSpeculative designNeoliberal imaginaryLebanonPolitical iconographyPoor power imagesPalaiologan RenaissanceModern Art HistoryPortrait de la jeune fille en fewDistorted portraitVisual CultureAby WarburgPoor power ImagesKustarImageSalon d'AutomnePoliticsRevolutionary festivalScuole GrandiSursock MuseumReligious submissionBeirutImage theorySexVisual identityWarfareNational imageSymbolsAlternative pressNicolas Ibrahim SursockGeographical personificationsParaestheticsCittadini originariUn’Ambigua UtopiaDissidenceVeniceAutotheoryPower of the imagesDesignGendered bodiesExhibitionPietro AretinoPolitical iconologySapieha familyJohn V PalaiologosPalazzo Madama, TorinoDecolonialityGeneral intellectFolkloreHistoriographical biasKodeńOur Lady of KodeńCountersurveillance fashionMacedoniaArts and craftsPost-RepresentationSurveillanceLabour of lovePost-representationCountersurveillance FashionContemporary artPropagandaByzantine sculptureItalyIconographySaint George

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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