Displacing Caravaggio : art, media, and humanitarian visual culture / Francesco Zucconi ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zucconi, Francesco, author.

Contributor:

Hanafi, Zakiya, 1959- translator.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Humanism in art.

Human beings in art.

Physical Description:

v, 244 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at several humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio's work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggio's attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing and insightful inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.

Notes:

Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version : Zucconi, Francesco. Displacing Caravaggio. Art, media, and humanitarian visual culture.

ISBN:

9783319933771

3319933779

OCLC:

1065354654