Stereotipi da vedere, amalgama artificioso e poliedrico di etnocentrismi vecchi e nuovi

Abstract

In this essay we analyze that stigmatization of the other, of the different that is realized through the production of visual and showy stereotypes and that therefore is articulated in the graphic, pictorial and sculptural sign. We are faced with a representation fed by a strategy of containment which, while visually materializing diversity at the same time despises and demonises it, fixes it, circumscribes it in graffiti, wall painting, statuary, fetish, puppet, toy and doll, and therefore in clay, stone, wood, iron, ivory, marble, even plastic, yesterday as today.

Keywords

• fabbricazione di un’idea, artificio, bestiario, fotografia antropometrica, arte etnica, bambola etnica, barbie