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Time, Space and the Human Body: An Interdisciplinary Look
This book considers various ways in which the body is, and has been, addressed and depicted overtime while also working to redefine the body and its relation to historical time and social space.
The Figure of Knowledge
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.
Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons
The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).
Unidentified Flying Object for Contemporary Architecture
The first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978), that conducts a historical analysis of its work, reveals its close relationship with the contemporary artistic, literary and architectural avant-garde and, finally, investigates its legacy for the contemporary project. The contemporary context is defined by a unique conjuncture. On one hand, we witness the revival of the Radical Architecture that from the avant-garde experiments of the origins recovers creative processes and iconographic fragments while nullifying the original ideological and political values. On the other hand, we see social protests in defense of fundamental rights of democracy, as in 1968. ...
Comics and Graphic Novels - International Perspectives, Education, and Culture
Comics and graphic novels are important components of popular culture and have international influence. They engage readers across all age groups and across fiction and non-fiction genres. They address many cultural and social ideas, histories, languages, and concepts with engaging stories and narratives. This book provides international perspectives on comics and graphic novels in various contexts for education that may inform social cognition, curriculum theory, and cultural studies. Interdisciplinary perspectives are highlighted to showcase research, theory, and practices in the use of comics and graphic novels. Complexity within this genre is discussed to provide new and updated perspectives on the theory and practice of comics and graphic novels for their reflection of and influence on culture, their multimodal role in content area literacy, and their influence across social contexts.
Women Art Dealers
Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other work in the field of art markets, challenging male-dominated histories by analyzing the work of female dealers who anticipated the global model, worked to promote art across continents, and thus developed an international art market. Part 1 focuses on the women gallerists behind the promotion of modern art after World War II who participated in important research about the neo-Avant-Garde. Part 2 examines the contributions by women art dealers toward the birth of new markets – through establishing the reputation of artistic genres, such as video ...
2020
Volume 10 examines how the innovative impulses that came from Italy were creatively merged with indigenous traditions and how many national variants of Futurism emerged from this fusion. Ten essays investigate various aspects of Italian Futurism and its links to Austria, Georgia, France, Hungary and Portugual and in fields such as Typography, Olfaction, Photography. Section 2 examines seven examples of caricatures and satires of Futurism in the contemporary press, followed by Section 3, reporting on the Archiv der Avantgarden (AdA) in Dresden. Section 4 communicates bibliographic details of 120 book publications on Futurism in the period 2017-2020, including exhibition catalogues, conference proceedings and editions.
Digital writing
Il volume è una guida approfondita alla conoscenza e alla pratica delle scritture digitali, intese in una accezione molto ampia. Si parla di web writing e della nuova tipografia del testo online; della forma del testo nell’accezione linguistica; di digital stories e della combinazione virtuosa di parole, immagini, suoni; di video digitale e di questioni legate all’uso e riuso dei contenuti, di copyright e proprietà intellettuale. Si indagano anche gli aspetti sociali della nuova testualità: dalle scritture collaborative fino alle modalità di costruzione della reputazione sul Web. Si affronta il tema delle scritture automatizzate e di quelle “aumentate”, delle nuove idee di editor...
La trama dell'allegoria
Guardando all’allegoria come modo espressivo culturalmente determinato, il volume indaga l’istanza allegorica presente nelle ‘scritture di ricerca’ del secondo ’900. Coniugando la discussione critico-teorica sull’allegoria moderna e sul dibattito italiano degli anni ’80 a puntuali analisi testuali, lo studio attraversa la produzione in prosa di autori di area sperimentale e neoavanguardistica, tra cui Manganelli, Morselli, Volponi, Malerba, Arbasino, Sanguineti e Di Marco. Nelle opere esaminate la tensione allegorica si esplica non solo nel piano tematico, ma si traduce nel modo di formare, orientando le scelte diegetiche, le strutture, i rapporti con generi e modelli della tradizione. Si dispiega, così, quella tramadisegnata dall’allegoria, principio strutturante dell’opera e garante del suo rapporto con il piano della storia – di cui la letteratura, con deformato realismo, esibisce conflitti e tensioni.
Itinerari danteschi nelle culture slave
A poco più di settecento anni dalla morte del grande poeta italiano, questo libro intende costituire un contributo alla conoscenza del ruolo che il retaggio letterario, culturale e linguistico dell’opera di Dante ha avuto nello sviluppo linguistico, nella formazione della coscienza nazionale dei popoli slavi, nelle loro letterature e nell'elaborazione del loro canone letterario, con particolare attenzione al periodo successivo al 1991. Negli ultimi trent’anni, infatti, nel variegato panorama dei paesi slavi sono avvenuti molti cambiamenti politici, sociali, culturali e linguistici. Sono sorte nuove entità politiche, nuovi stati, con le rispettive lingue nazionali e con la necessità di rivedere o elaborare i rispettivi canoni letterari. Il volume contiene saggi sulla ricezione di Dante in Bielorussia, Bulgaria, Cechia, Croazia, Macedonia, Polonia, Russia, Serbia, Slovacchia e Ucraina.
