期刊名称：European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes
电子版ISSN：2612-0496
出版年度：2021
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：211-235
DOI：10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12690
语种：English
出版社：University of Bologna
摘要：Since 2008 an object has become part of the repertoire of demonstrations, the mask. First in the Global North and then worldwide, a variety of masks – from that of the film V for Vendetta to that of The Joker and many more – have been donned by protesters. While individual masks have been investigated, the widespread use of masks as a meaningful political symbol still deserves analysis, all the more so that this artefact is absent from the political tradition of the Western World. The article formulates some hypotheses in order to understand the genealogy of the “political mask”. In particular, it locates its longue durée visual history within the iconography of the “faceless crowd”.
