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

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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