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Creativity, the highest level of human wisdom, has become an increasingly important concept in different fields of psychological enquiry, particularly because it is portrayed as contributing to many aspects of society, including personal development, economic prosperity and technological advancement. However, although considerable research attention from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds has focused on trying to understand creativity, the specific nature of creativity, its theoretical underpinnings and cognitive mechanisms, remain unclear, not least when it comes to the understanding of creativity at the individual level and creativity at the collective level. On the one hand, there a...
Looking at "Horse in Motion", the iconic photograph by E. Muybridge, it is almost possible to hear the horse galloping. The pounding sound of the hoofs hitting the ground -like a drum- can also echo the rythmic beating of the human heart. That sound, that visceral rhythm, reminds us of the link between motion and performance: the perfectly executed stride of the horse, the incredible coordination of multiscale phenomena behind a heart beat. Furthermore, the decomposed sequence in Muybridge's photograph has become a well-known example of breaking motion into its components over time, and as such is reminiscent of those images that are routinely acquired in clinical practice, where the heart a...
Con il catalogo I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800, pubblicata dal 1990 al 1994 da Bertola & Locatelli a Cuneo, Claudio Sartori ha donato alla ricerca sulla storia dell'opera e dell'oratorio una base completamente nuova. Rispondendo alle richieste degli studiosi di rendere nuovamente disponibile questo opus magnum, Don Juan Archiv Wien e Hollitzer Verlag pubblicano una ristampa e un'edizione e-book, con un ritratto dell'autore e della sua opera realizzato da Federica Riva. With his catalogue I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800, published by Bertola & Locatelli in Cuneo between 1990 and 1994, Claudio Sartori laid a completely new foundation for the research of the history of operas and oratorios. Responding to the requests of scholars to make this opus magnum available again Don Juan Archiv Wien and Hollitzer Verlag publish a reprint and an e-book edition, including a portrait of the author and his work by Federica Riva.