Funeral Eulogy
| Autor: | Luisella Farinotti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts ISBN: 9789048527069 Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.17 |
| Popis: | The essay explores the relationship between dead bodies, statues and photographs, individuating in the images not only a means for petrifying bodies, embalming them in time—as argued by Barthes, Debray and Dubois—but also a form of re-animation of the inanimate. A sort of living relic, the image is the frozen testimony of a fleeting vitality, a paradoxical form of ‘visible hiding’ in which life and death are intertwined. The essay demonstrates this process in some contemporary works, moving from The Hidden Mother (L. Fregni Nagler, 2013), a series of portraits of babies from the late nineteenth century. In these bodies of babies still alive, but in which lives their very same corpse, death is a phantom but also a tangible fear behind the photographic gesture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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