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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300034903321

Autore

Zucconi Francesco

Titolo

Displacing Caravaggio : Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture / / by Francesco Zucconi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319933788

3319933787

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

759.5

Soggetti

Arts

Ethnology

Culture - Study and teaching

Fine Art

Sociocultural Anthropology

Cultural Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Humanitarian Archeology -- 3. Unstill Life -- 4. Pathos, Survival, and "Quasi Immanence" -- 5. On the Limits of the Virtual Humanitarian Experience -- 6. Caravaggio on Lampedusa -- 7. On Displacing.

Sommario/riassunto

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 politicalphilosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973658703321

Autore

Daugherty William J. <1947->

Titolo

Executive secrets : covert action and the presidency / / William J. Daugherty ; foreword by Mark Bowden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2004

ISBN

9786613232977

9780813191614

0813191610

9781283232975

1283232979

9780813171968

0813171962

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BowdenMark

Disciplina

327.1273

Soggetti

Intelligence service - United States - History - 20th century

Presidents - United States - History - 20th century

Espionage - United States - History - 20th century

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The role of covert action in intelligence and foreign policy -- The "romances" of covert action -- Covert action policy and pitfalls -- The military and peacetime covert action -- The discipline of covert action -- Approval and review of covert action programs in the modern era -- Harry S. Truman -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson -- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford -- Jimmy



Carter -- Ronald W. Reagan -- George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"" A HISTORY BOOK CLUB SELECTION With a Foreword by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down