Quaderni di Venezia Arti

Behind the Image, Beyond the Image

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  • Giovanni Argan - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Lorenzo Gigante - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinsky - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email

Abstract

The volume includes papers presented at the III International Conference of PhD students of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the State Institute for Art Studies of Moscow (Venice, 22-24 September 2021). The word ‘image’ derives from the Latin imago, a word that has many different meanings that go from ‘portrait’ to ‘ghost’, from ‘idea’ to ‘dream’, from ‘memory’ to ‘reflection’. We most commonly associate the word ‘image’ with a picture, but its etymology keeps reminding us of its infinite conceptual potential. In his famous book Behind the Image: The Art of Reading Paintings, Federico Zeri argues that there are infinite ways to observe the work of art as an image. But since the image is something that goes beyond its mere material and physical form and refers to the categories of perception and thought, the expression “beyond the image” encourages new formulations related to this polyvalent concept. The image, the imagination and the imaginable are the transversal categories that the papers collected in this volume aim to explore, inquiring the concept of image as a metaphor, a model, a method, a representation, a tool for a new understanding of reality.

Keywords SituationDionysusArchitecture theoryXenia StravinskyPimenovDrawingMary Tibaldi ChiesaSportModest MusorgskyIconotextSeventeenth centuryTheologyKnow thyselfZeitbildPseudomorphosisOil sketchesRomeSelf-imageCultural traditionItalyKantCuratorial studiesSketchWoodcutSculptureAllison StewartActivationIgor StravinskyLand ArtHudinilson JrSaint SebastianItalian postwar artExhibition set upLombardyArt criticismGrand TourPerformative LanguagesSoviet criticismArt and powerKhovanshchinaSteve McQueenNikolay Rimsky-KorsakovHagiographySocially engaged artIconology刘永刚Jacopo LigozziArchitecture exhibitionHoly foolLandscapePaintingsEpiphanyFranciscanismVittorio GuiCollecting in RomeResponseExhibition studies1962ConstructivismRussian operaInformal artCinemaImageBanksyMadonna del Fuoco当代艺术Miss JulieArt marketEuropean artParticipationPainting of souvenirsEpidemicViolinScreenPhilosophyArchitecture representationExhibitionsPhotography in public spaceHistory of collectionsFranceReturn to USSRTimeMultidisciplinaryContemporary artPhotographic displayBlack Lives MatterHistoriographyMiraculous imagesArt in public spaceMemoryBurovGiovanni BaglioneJRTheatreRussian opera in ItalyMonumentsRe-iconocity of charactersMirrorIconoclasmSite-specificSam DurantCity of 20th centuryVisual Culture StudiesSoviet caricaturesSoviet animationMythBoris GodunovNational identityEcclesiologyPoliticsMorazzoneWord-picture relationshipAestheticsRobert CraftMasculinityMusicNarcissusFifteenth centuryThe image of sportChristiane JatahyGiorgio VasariImage theorySedimentationKhrushchev’s ThawLa ScalaToppled Monuments ArchiveSmall-sized paintingsKatie MitchellStageXerox ActionsAnimalsRobert SmithsonBolognaPavel LammChinese Contemporary artMediaVisualArchitectureSociety of Easel PaintersIntermedialityBoris AsafyevSoviet art theoryMoscow Olympic GamesDiplomatic giftEngagementSport animationRi-mediationBaroqueRussian EuropeanReligious metaphorLiu YonggangHeideggerEntropyPlato

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-588-9 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-588-9 | Pubblicato 13 Maggio 2022 | Lingua en, ru, it