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Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Volume 7 | Miscellanea | A Driving Force
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 Melodrama • Socially engaged art • Fascism • Public sphere • Renaissance • Byzantine Empire • The Peggy Guggenheim Collection • Coronation of Miraculous Images • Modern art history • Latin faith • Authority • Jan Fryderyk Sapieha • New Formalism • Byzantine empire • Vittorio Viale • Optic Nerve • Metaphor • Visual culture • Holbein • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth • Technology • Arts • Speculative Design • Materialism • New media installation art • Crossmapping • Allegory • Feminist art • Wearable technologies • Venice Biennale • A/traverso • Occupational realism • Postcolonialism • Lucerne • Russian style • Semiology • Directory • Gaze • Power • Painted facade • Image and power • Salon dʼAutomne • Rhetoric • The Bureau of Melodramatic Research • Russian Empire • Drone • Wood • Sixteenth-century Italian art • Second Post War Period • Portrait de la jeune fille en feu • French Revolution • Power representation • New Media Installation Art • Speculative design • Neoliberal imaginary • Lebanon • Political iconography • Poor power images • Palaiologan Renaissance • Modern Art History • Portrait de la jeune fille en few • Distorted portrait • Visual Culture • Aby Warburg • Poor power Images • Kustar • Image • Salon d'Automne • Politics • Revolutionary festival • Scuole Grandi • Sursock Museum • Religious submission • Beirut • Image theory • Sex • Visual identity • Warfare • National image • Symbols • Alternative press • Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock • Geographical personifications • Paraesthetics • Cittadini originari • Un’Ambigua Utopia • Dissidence • Venice • Autotheory • Power of the images • Design • Gendered bodies • Exhibition • Pietro Aretino • Political iconology • Sapieha family • John V Palaiologos • Palazzo Madama, Torino • Decoloniality • General intellect • Folklore • Historiographical bias • Kodeń • Our Lady of Kodeń • Countersurveillance fashion • Macedonia • Arts and crafts • Post-Representation • Surveillance • Labour of love • Post-representation • Countersurveillance Fashion • Contemporary art • Propaganda • Byzantine sculpture • Italy • Iconography • Saint 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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Self-Definition and Self-Questioning: Image-Making as a Political Tool
Artistic Expression and Political Power in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice
Me, Myself and I: Reframing the Concepts of Identity and Otherness
Art, Patronage, and Prestige: Visual Representations of Power in the Modern Era
Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face: On the Image as Social Response and Counterculture
Unveiling Perception: Altered Reality Through Surveillance and AI Imagery
Symbolism and Identity in Ancient Societies: Negotiating Power Through Material Culture
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Interdisciplinary Practices and Moving Images
Cultural Institutions and Power: On the Relationship Between Museums and Politics
Let Me Be Your Eyes: Investigations into the Phenomenology of Control