Displacing Caravaggio : Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture / by Francesco Zucconi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zucconi, Francesco, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts.

Ethnology.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Fine Art.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Cultural Theory.

Local Subjects:

Fine Art.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Cultural Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: 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 a number of 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 inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and politicalphilosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Humanitarian Archeology

3. Unstill Life

4. Pathos, Survival, and "Quasi Immanence"

5. On the Limits of the Virtual Humanitarian Experience

6. Caravaggio on Lampedusa

7. On Displacing.

ISBN:

9783319933788

3319933787