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Introduzione
No full textIntroduzione al volume: A. Pinotti (a cura di), Il primo libro di estetica, Einaudi, Torino 202
È possibile oggi la filosofia? : lezioni al Collège de France 1958-1959 e 1960-1961
No full textTraduttori: A. Pinotti per il corso 1958-1959 (“La filosofia oggi”) e relative Appendici pp. 1-143, F. Paracchini per il corso 1960-1961 (“L’ontologia cartesiana e l’ontologia d’oggi”) e dell’“Abbozzo di una redazione” pp. 145-28
Immersi nelle immagini : Idee per un lemmario visuale contemporaneo
Full text linkThis chapter addresses the condition of pervasive immersivity characterizing our contemporary visual culture. In particular, it identifies three main properties – unframedness, presentness, immediateness – as specific marks of immersivity
L’immagine come forma del sapere
Full text linkThis chapter addresses the cognitive value of images and the correspondent knowledge, also referred to as "visual thinking"
El Greco at the Ophthalmologist’s
Full text linkThe paper aims at reconstructing the centennial history of the so-called “El Greco fallacy”, namely the hypothesis that the extremely elongated figures painted by the Cretan artist were due to his astigmatism and not to a stylistic option intentionally assumed by the painter. This hypothesis interestingly and problematically intertwines the status of the perceptual image with the status of the represented picture. While offering a survey of the main positions defended by ophthalmologists, psychologists, art critics and art historians on this optical issue, the essay tries to reject the false alternative between a physiologistic and a spiritualistic approach to art, both based on an unsustainable causalistic assumption. Drawing on David Katz and Merleau-Ponty, the author rather outlines an expressive model in which the optical element in visual arts is not denied, but on the contrary metabolized in the embodied representation
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