Displacing Caravaggio

Name: Displacing Caravaggio
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
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By Francesco Zucconi

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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 political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.

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Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 256
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:: 2018-10-26
ISBN / EAN:: 9783319933771
Weight:: 487 g
Dimensions:: 15/22/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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