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Book SynopsisThis volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to Pasolini — sacredness — with a multidisciplinary approach that will shed a light on his main characteristics as a poet, writer, director, and artist and on the cultural influence he wielded. This catalogue for the exhibition at the Palazzo Barberini connects a selection of paintings from the Gallerie Nazionali as well as other national and international museums to photographs, audio samples, and texts linked to Pasolini. It investigates what we may call “Pasolinian imagery” by focusing on a series of questions, such as: What is Pasolini’s influence on today’s visual culture? To what extent are our observations of past works, their interpretation, and the impressions they elicit indebted to a manner of seeing, an “optical subconscious” of sorts, that Pasolini’s aesthetics and ideology contributed to shaping?
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Table of Contents6 Foreword Flaminia Gennari Santori 12 Figures of Figures: Pasolini and the Resistance of Images Michele Di Monte 42 Chaplin, Dreyer, Murnau, and the Others. Auteur Cinema in Pasolini’s Filmaking Roberto Chiesi 70 The Caravaggio Theorem Andrea Cortellessa 106 “Cardboard Man” Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, 1961 Philippe-Alain Michaud 130 Prologue | Figures | Epilogue 132 Prologue | The Virtual Body of Images 138 Figure I | The Epiphanic Body 150 Figure II | The Body of the Scandal 162 Figure III | The Body of Grief 172 Figure IV | The Body of the People 184 Epilogue | The Body as Subject 192 Bibliography: Pasolini and Visual Art
