Displacing Caravaggio Displacing Caravaggio

Displacing Caravaggio

Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2018
October 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
255
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer International Publishing
SELLER
Springer Nature B.V.
SIZE
8.4
MB
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