Title

A Driving Force

Description

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.

Subject

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

Publisher

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari

Date

2023

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5

Type

Text

Format

PDF

Language

en

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134484

Relation

Quaderni di Venezia Arti 14

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Educational Level

Higher education | research

Interactivity Type

Expositive