Artful seeing

Iconic and icastic


ISBN: 9788857563947
publisher: Mimesis
year: 2020
pages: 499

 

On the occasion of Paolo Fabbri's 80th birthday, this book collects his reflections and analysis on contemporary arts and artists. Valerio Adami, Giovanni Anceschi, Antonin Artaud, Nanni Balestrini, Matthew Barney, Gianfranco Baruchello, Christian Boltanski, Enrico Castellani, Maurizio Cattelan, Giorgio De Chirico, Luciano Fabro, Federico Fellini, Luigi Ghirri, Alfredo Jaar, Paul Klee, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Barbara Kruger, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Luigi Mattei, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fabio Mauri, Renato Meneghetti, Maurizio Mochetti, Ugo Mulas, Bruce Nauman, Nunzio, Claudio Parmiggiani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Studio Azzurro, Mimmo Rotella, Pietro Ruffo, Alberto Savinio, Emilio Tadini, Grazia Toderi, Bill Viola, Gilberto Zorio are explained with insightfulness. Here the questions are addressed not to the artists but to their works, to paintings, sculptures, photographs, décollages, installations, videos, and performances that with Fabbri open up and give answers. It is the semiotic method at the litmus test, for skeptics, for the curious, for those who continue to learn from him.

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