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Displacing Caravaggio

Name: Displacing Caravaggio
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 19424148
Price: 84.44 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Francesco Zucconi
ISBN: 9783319933771

Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture

Francesco Zucconi

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 19424148

Publishers Springer International Publishing AG, October 2018

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's works for contemporary human... Full description

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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 several 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 and insightful inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.