Humanities | |
Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande | |
Francesco Zucconi1  | |
[1] Department of Architecture and Arts, IUAV University of Venice, Dorsoduro 2206, 30123 Venice, Italy; | |
关键词: Caravaggio; quoting; displacing; witnessing; representation of suffering; humanitarian visual culture; | |
DOI : 10.3390/h11020044 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
Why were Caravaggio’s Sleeping Cupid (1608) and The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? And why did Caravaggio’s work inspire a series of photographic and journalistic reportages on contemporary migratory phenomena? This article surveys the main circumstances linking Caravaggio’s pictorial corpus to the so-called European migrant crisis. After critical reflection on the social construction of the “humanitarian Caravaggio,” the focus shifts onto a book that is at the same time a journalistic investigation of migratory phenomena, a literary work, and a theoretical reflection on the ways of looking: La frontiera (2015) by Alessandro Leogrande, which concludes with a reflection on the representation of suffering in Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of St. Matthew (1600). By following a path that connects Caravaggio’s painting, Susan Sontag’s thought, and Leogrande’s writing, what emerges is the critical and self-critical potentiality of a comparative approach to the arts and images.
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