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Monogrammist FA, Maenad with statuette, engraving, 1507, London, British Museum
Monogrammist FA, Maenad with statuette, engraving, 1507, London, British Museum

"Groping statues". Pseudo reprises in the global flow of images

Conferenza nel seminario internazionale Aesthetics, Semiotics of Art, and Visual Culture

20 Novembre 2025 , ore 14:00 - 16:00
Aula 006
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Organizzato da: Stefania Caliandro
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Monogrammist FA, Maenad with statuette, engraving, 1507, London, British Museum
Monogrammist FA, Maenad with statuette, engraving, 1507, London, British Museum
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Speaker: Frank Fehrenbach (Universität Hamburg e Imaginarien der Kraft)

My lecture focuses on a striking recent case of apparent female "statue love" in Florence in 2024, juxtaposing it with the near-complete absence of female statue eroticism in the Western history of texts and images. In the broader context of a globally widespread practice of digitally documented "intimate" interactions with statues by people of all genders, I conclude by asking what forms of aesthetic appropriation of figurative sculpture are at stake in such gestures.