TY - BOOK ID - 33227296 TI - Displacing Caravaggio : Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture PY - 2018 SN - 3319933787 3319933779 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, KW - Karavadzho, Mikelʹandzhelo da, KW - Merizi, Mikelʹandzhelo, KW - Merisi, Michelangelo, KW - Amerighi, Michelangelo, KW - Caravaggio, KW - Merisio, Michelangelo, KW - Da Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, KW - Merisi da Caravaggio, Michelangelo, KW - Caravage, KW - Merisi, Michelange, KW - Caravage, Michelange de, KW - Caravaggi, M. de KW - קרוואג׳יו KW - Fine arts. KW - Ethnology. KW - Culture-Study and teaching. KW - Fine Arts. KW - Cultural Anthropology. KW - Cultural Theory. KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Culture—Study and teaching. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33227296 AB - 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. ER -