Appel à contribution : « On the Rhetoric of Images and Power », Venise, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, 4-6 octobre 2023, date limite le 14 mai 2023
Art is a powerful and non-neutral tool. Its forms and expressions can influence, entertain, educate, and manipulate the realm of the real. Throughout history, the artists’ creative power was able to give form, substance, and meaning to otherwise inert matter, making them a demiurge. Images, however, once they have taken on their final form and are put into circulation, undertake a life of their own. Images can direct the spectator’s interest toward their own content. The more...