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HumanitarianPassions

Humanitarian Passions. The Survival of Christian Iconography in Contemporary Representations of Pain: a Visual Studies Approach

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Coordinator
ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES 

Organization address
address: 54 BD RASPAIL
city: PARIS 6
postcode: 75270
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 Coordinator Country France [FR]
 Project website https://humanitarianpassions.wordpress.com/
 Total cost 173˙076 €
 EC max contribution 173˙076 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2015
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2015-06-15   to  2017-06-14

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1    ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES FR (PARIS 6) coordinator 173˙076.00

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 Project objective

My research project aims at contributing to understanding the role played by mass communications in contemporary humanitarian crises, through a comparative study of representations of pain in the history of Western iconography. The main objective is to analyse a corpus of humanitarian communications and identify their models in the history of the iconography of past centuries. Specifically, I intend to study the relationship between the images of contemporary humanitarianism and representations of the Passion in the history of Western visual arts. My hypothesis is that Christian iconography constitutes a database of images on which the media rely implicitly to create situations charged with pathos and suffering and to suggest a moral attitude to the audience. The qualifying methodology of my work is to compare images from different historical periods. Using the approach of Visual Studies I will be able to increase the knowledge of Christian iconography in the light of humanitarian communications, and to understand the effectiveness of the latter in a direct comparison with the repertoire of the Passion in Western art. The research will focus on a set of multimedia documents (NGOs campaigns, films, paintings...). The general hypothesis will be developed according to four sub-objectives: 1) To analyse the narrative, passional and axiological organisation of Christian iconography as expressed in exemplary works. 2) To analyse humanitarian communications of European catastrophes. 3) To analyse humanitarian communications concerning Africa. 4) To study Humanitarian communications as re-interpreted by contemporary artists. This research project is a significant opportunity to advance the European scientific tradition in Visual Studies. Through the achievement of the sub-objectives, I will study the cultural roots of humanitarianism, improving the understanding of communications in traumatic situations and contributing to the implementation of EU polices and practices.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2017 Francesco Zucconi
\"Mediazione radicale, coscienza impersonale: \"\"Qu\'ils reposent en révolte\"\" di Sylvain George\"
published pages: 245-252, ISSN: 1970-5786, DOI:
Fata Morgana 31 2019-07-24
2017 Nicola Perugini, Francesco Zucconi
Enjoy Poverty : humanitarianism and the testimonial function of images
published pages: 24-32, ISSN: 1472-586X, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2016.1246066
Visual Studies 32/1 2019-07-24

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