A Driving Force : On the Rhetoric of Images and Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertoli, Angélica.

Series:

Quaderni Di Venezia Arti Series

Quaderni Di Venezia Arti Series ; v.7

Language:

English

Italian

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari 2023

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

3Introductory remarks

Self-Definition and Self-Questioning: Image-Making as a Political Tool

9Image and Imagery in the Age of the Directory (1795-99)

The Political Symbolism of the Revolution between Old and New Horizons

Giacomo Carmagnini

25Reworking National History

The Representation of Power and its Subsequent Overturning in Relation to Postcolonial Art in Italy

Jacopo De Blasio

Artistic Expression and Political Power in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice

39Reflections of Venetian Cittadini Originari

The Zamberti Family: A Case Study

Anna Bernante

57Beyond the Image of Submission

At the Origin of the Distorted Portrait of the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos (r. 1354-91) in the Latin West

Giulia D'Albenzio

75Words For/Against Power

Pietro Aretino's Poetical Devices as Demystification of the Present

Andrea Golfetto

Me, Myself and I: Reframing the Concepts of Identity and Otherness

93Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Deconstructing the Performance of Labour in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research

Fabiola Fiocco

109Gendered Allegories of Power and Warfare: Warrior Women as Personifications in Early Modern Art

Elisa Stafferini

Art, Patronage, and Prestige: Visual Representations of Power in the Modern Era

127Protected and Protecting

Dual Relations between the Sapieha Family and the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Kodeń

Dagmar Vysloužilová

141An Exercise of Style and Power

Hans Holbein the Younger and the Painted Facade of the Hertenstein House in Lucerne (1517)

Sandes Dindar

Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face: On the Image as Social Response and Counterculture

167Countercultural Images and Technological Visions in the Italian Alternative Press Around 1977

Sara Molho

187The Power of Contemporary Chinese Photography.

Capturing Moments, Shaping Perspectives

Sen Fu

Unveiling Perception: Altered Reality Through Surveillance and AI Imagery

201Countersurveillance Aesthetic

Resistance Through Wearable Technologies

Irene Calvi

213Poor Power Images in the Work of Hito Steyerl

Jolanda Wessel

Symbolism and Identity in Ancient Societies: Negotiating Power Through Material Culture

233The Power of Statues in Byzantium

The Wooden Effigy of Saint George in Omorfokklisia as a Talismanic Device

Elena De Zordi

Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Interdisciplinary Practices and Moving Images

251The Object Looks Back: Paraesthetic Vision in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu and Optic Nerve

Mansi Tiwari

267Unseen Memories

Exploring Imagery in Jeremy Deller's We're Here Because We're Here and the 14-18 NOW Project

Angelica Bertoli

Cultural Institutions and Power: On the Relationship Between Museums and Politics

287The Rise of the Sursock Museum

The Power of the Image to Create an Image of Power

Ashraf Osman

'Il cappellino all'ultima moda'

The impossible exhibition of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Turin

Maria Novella Tavano

Let Me Be Your Eyes: Investigations into the Phenomenology of Control

321Aby Warburg and the Political Iconography of Fascism: An Analysis of Symbols of Power

Margherita Piccichè

339Shifting Roles

The Imperial Folk Arts and Crafts Revival's Narratives at the Second All-Russian Kustar' Exhibition (1913)

Giulia Gelmi

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1 Introduction: a New Public Dimension

2 The Image of Power and the Power of Image in the Revolutionary 'Middle Ages' (1795-99)

3 From Theory to Practice: the Festivals of the Directory

4 Conclusions: the 'Unfathomable' People

1 Decolonizing Italian Visual Identity

2 Resemantization. Three Case Studies.

1 Being a Cittadino Originario between the Quattrocento and Cinquecento

2 The "cittadinesca famiglia Zamberti, soprannominata dall'Avogaria"

3 The Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista: A Father-to-Son Connection

4 The Inventory as a Mirror: Reflections of Daily Life, Devotion, Collecting, Portraiture, and Public Commissions

1 Introduction

2 Beyond Da Canal's Painting: At the Origin of an Iconographic Distorted Portrait

3 The Literary Portraits of John V in the Work of Philippe de Mézières: At the Origin of a Historiographical Distortion

4 Conclusions

2 Choose a Job You Love or The Moral and Political Economy of Neoliberal Imaginary

3 Occupational Realism and the Artist as Blueprint

4 The Dramatisation of Labour by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research

5 5. Conclusion

1 Roma(e) Resurgen(te)s: Vasari's Cities in Palazzo Vecchio, 'Rediscovery' and Reinterpretation of an Ancient Phenomenon

2 Valiant Soldiers and Virgin Lands: Geographical Personifications in Titian's Religion Saved by Spain

3 Power, Governance, and Erotic Allegory: Girolamo Mazzola Bedoliʼs Parma Embraces Alessandro Farnese

1 Phenomena of Miraculous Images

2 Two Engravings from Leipzig

3 Family Gallery

4 The Adventures of Mikołaj Sapieha

5 Latin Issue

6 Preparation for the Coronation

7 Conclusion

2 A Patron, a Talented Artist and a Blank Canvas

3 The Iconography: Between Antiquity and Modernity

4 The Iconographical Message

5 For a Rhetoric of Power

6 Conclusion: Imitation, Opulence and Influence

2 Trajectories about Commonality and Technologies from the Italian Leftist Press in the Sixties

3 Technological Visions in the Seventies

4 Desire, Communication and Airwaves: A/traverso.

5 Utopia and Science Fiction, in Practice: Un'Ambigua Utopia

6 Conclusion

2 The Intrusive Power of the Camera

3 A Decade Later: Surveillance Core

4 Conclusion

2 A Living Memorial

3 Questioning the past: the artist as historian

4 The liminal space: re-shaping the commemorative act through the interference of theatre and visual arts

2 The Book

3 The Man

4 Art in Beirut before the Museum

5 The Imaginary Museum

6 The Fall Exhibitions

7 The Structures of Power

8 Passport to Society

9 Ivory Tower Politics

10 Conclusion

2 The Birth of Political Iconography

3 Aby Warburg and Political Iconography

4 Hamburg, July 16, 1927, Erich Rothacker at the Kulturwissenschaft Bibliothek

5 The Hamburg Plate of 1927

6 Lack of Distance: The Violence of Fascist Re-paganization

7 Conclusions

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ISBN:

9788869697715

8869697711

OCLC:

1611790655