Drifting Gondolas

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1232
dc.contributor.author	Bellato Elisa
dc.title	Drifting Gondolas. The Precarious Present of an Artistic Artefact
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Gondolas are still potent Venetian icons. Nonetheless, now they face a profound identity crisis, as a consequence of market trends and the use of new materials and techniques which are radically changing the way they are built. From a wider perspective, the juxtaposition between the new ‘gondola simulacrum’ an empty symbol without any artisan quality and the traditional ‘gondola valuable handicraft’ reflects the clear dividing line between the city of Venice crossed every year by almost 30 million tourists and the living city animated by inhabitants and original activities. In this way the process of gondola’s heritagisation (recent attempts to candidate it in the UNESCO List) becomes a lens to read the destiny of an entire city where resilient energies, not properly native but deeply rooted, look for forms of survival to mechanisms of mass tourism.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-12-31
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-12-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-225-3/drifting-gondolas/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-47
dc.identifier.issn	2611-0040
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9247
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-225-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-179-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Gondola’s heritagisation
dc.subject	Gondola’s heritagisation
dc.subject	Unesco
dc.subject	Unesco
dc.subject	Venetian craftsmanship
dc.subject	Venetian craftsmanship

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Drifting Gondolas

The Precarious Present of an Artistic Artefact

Elisa Bellato Università di Verona

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Gondolas are still potent Venetian icons. Nonetheless, now they face a profound identity crisis, as a consequence of market trends and the use of new materials and techniques which are radically changing the way they are built. From a wider perspective, the juxtaposition between the new ‘gondola simulacrum’ an empty symbol without any artisan quality and the traditional ‘gondola valuable handicraft’ reflects the clear dividing line between the city of Venice crossed every year by almost 30 million tourists and the living city animated by inhabitants and original activities. In this way the process of gondola’s heritagisation (recent attempts to candidate it in the UNESCO List) becomes a lens to read the destiny of an entire city where resilient energies, not properly native but deeply rooted, look for forms of survival to mechanisms of mass tourism.

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Dec. 31, 2017

Accepted

March 21, 2017

Submitted

Dec. 21, 2016

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978-88-6969-225-3

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978-88-6969-179-9

Keywords: Unesco • Gondola’s heritagisation • Venetian craftsmanship

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