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Abstraction Matters
From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined by a dualistic tension between the urge for imitation of natural forms (mimesis) and the desire to freely shape autonomous configurations (abstraction). Within such a complex history, the second half of the 20th century has been a particularly intense period. Besides their abstract works, many sculptors developed an extraordinarily rich theoretical discourse. This collection of essays presents some of the most eminent protagonists of this crucial historical moment by focusing on the artists’ “own words”. In their analysis, the contributors have followed three key-notions – “Sensation”, “Idea”, and “Language” – that fruitfully collect different artists under a common conceptual arch and show the aesthetic relevance of abstraction in sculpture. This book addresses high-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the scholarly community in the fields of aesthetics and art criticism, art history and art theory, visual, cultural and media studies.
Poetics of Underground Space
This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows. The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generates increasingly compromised landscapes, what are th...
The Place of Silence
The Place of Silence explores the poetics and politics of silence in architecture. Bringing together contributions by internationally recognized scholars in architecture and the humanities, it explores the diverse practices, affects, politics and cultural meanings of silence, silent places and silent buildings in historical and contemporary contexts. What counts as silence in specific situations is highly relative, and the term itself carries complex and varied significations which make it a revealing field of study. Chapters explore a range of themes, from the apparent 'loss of silence' in the contemporary urban world; through designed silent spaces; to the forced silences of oppression, catastrophe, or technological breakdown. The book unfolds a rich and complementary array of perspectives which address – through the lens of architecture and place – questions of sound, atmosphere, and attunement, together building a volume which will form the key scholarly resource on architecture and silence.
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Lo spazio in architettura
Lo spazio in architettura è un testo fondamentale per la comprensione del lento ma affascinante percorso di avvicinamento della disciplina architettonica alla sostanza più autentica dell’architettura stessa: lo spazio. Il libro contiene un testo didattico, concepito, secondo le intenzioni dell’autore, in modo che gli studenti di architettura possano comprendere tutta la complessità e la profondità del tema dibattuto. Esso rappresenta, inoltre, un utile strumento di approfondimento per gli architetti, i teorici e gli storici dell’architettura, così come per gli storici dell’arte e i filosofi. Questa efficacia si riscontra nel mondo iberico, dove lo scritto è conosciuto da oltre ...
In difesa di Don Giovanni
In un periodo in cui don Giovanni è il più delle volte rappresentato come un playboy violento, la difesa della sua figura viene da una donna che rivendica la propria appartenenza femminista, mettendola in tensione con la carica eversiva del personaggio. Non solo seduttore, ma oppositore irriducibile, assunto a incarnare un potenziale di libertà che comprende anche la spietatezza e la beffa, rievocando gli ideali e le illusioni degli anni Sessanta. Il testo alterna dialoghi immaginari tra la narratrice e don Giovanni a capitoli in cui lei stessa racconta di incontri con specialisti e appassionati del mito di don Giovanni. Tra le versioni del mito che vengono presentate nei dialoghi: il rac...
