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Albe di un nuovo sentire. La condizione neocontemplativa
No full textLeggere, contemplare, curare la natura sono attività che aiutano a uscire dall’atrofia mentale del mondo consegnato alla Rete, in cerca di una visione armonica contro la banalità dei media. Il libro mostra come i fili del moderno e del postmoderno si siano intrecciati con la realtà virtuale in un garbuglio inestricabile, creando un caos linguistico e antropologico in cui l’arte sembra aver perso senso. Ma anche nell’era attuale può risorgere la lezione dell’antico: attraverso una rivisitazione dell’aura contemplativa potremo fare nostro un nuovo sentire, che rifugge dallo shock, dall’improvvisazione e dal kitsch, per mettere al centro la sensibilità e la fantasia creatrice
Dawn of a New Feeling
No full textComputers have become omnipresent in recent decades, affecting all aspects of modern life and influencing creative pursuits in art, architecture, music, and film. One consequence of this seemingly irreversible trend is its effect on the perception of the aesthetic object, and indeed of nature itself. Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating new and entertaining art forms, while contending that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and blunts the viewer's capacity for feeling a genuine connection with a work of art. First describing how modernity and post-modernity are entangled with virtual reality, engendering linguistic and anthropological confusion in which art seems to have lost its meaning, Milani then contrasts these developments with classical art forms and reflects on the ways in which traditional art objects stimulate an appreciation of nature, which, upon contemplation, appears as an aesthetic object itself. The saturation of our culture by mass media, he argues, can give rise to a renewed desire to experience a more intimate communication with nature. By identifying reading, contemplation, and care for nature as activities that help us to escape the mental atrophy of a web-dominated world and find refuge from the chaos of virtual mediation, Dawn of a New Feeling offers a reinterpretation of contemplative approaches to appreciating aesthetics and to understanding the profound nature of artistic vision
Sul genio nipponico. Tecniche e sentimenti di un popolo
No full textConfronto tra le idee della cultura estetica giapponese e di quella italiana in riferimento ai capolavori della scultura buddhista giapponese. Artisti e studiosi vengono citati sul filo dell'interpretazione europea particolarmente della critica di Henri Focillon e Martin Heidegger
Elzeviro
No full textBefore our very eyes, like a trauma in mutation, an enigma is embodied with passages and transformations that myth guides back to the poetic veracity of memory. The flux of its forms is regulsted by the secret rhythm of universal life
Ontologia del rappresentare
No full textReorganisation work in the
wake of an environmental
disaster requires the
identification of operational
priorities. Among these one
must not forget the value
of memory: not only with
regards to the form of a
territory but also bearing
in mind the lives of the
inhabitants. Responsible
architecture must consider
the aesthetic significance of
the constructed landscap
Sguardi oltre il confine. Per un'ontologia della rappresentazione
No full textThe Gaze beyond the Finite. Toward an Ontology of Representation. In this paper I study the thread connecting the western world and Japan in terms of the images and inspiration at the heart of a shared appreciation of beauty. Keeping in mind the spirit of seduction by which these two worlds, though distant from each other, glow through their respective myths of human action and representation, which is ultimately expressed in daily life, I examine these mirror images as they are described by European and Japanese scholars. My reflections are aimed at establishing an intriguing reciprocity of gazes, thereby initiating a discussion on the ideas and the art of the Land of the Rising Sun taking into consideration not only European reception of these but also Japanese reception of European cultural aesthetics. In this context, the finite and the infinite vie for domination in the images evoked
Sul filo delle rappresentazione
No full textSpesso ci domandiamo se l'estetica non possa essere considerata una filosofia della rappresentazione mirando essa allo sdoppiamento della realtà nelle figure dell'immaginazione, alla separazione dello sguardo contemplativo dalla figura dell'aisthesis
A Daimon Roams the Landscapes
No full textFrom a study of some aesthetic and artistic categories from the Enlightment and Romanticism, the sublime, the picturesque, the neo-gotics, the romantic, and then symbolism, etc., emerge different vision of the world, proposed by philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers, occasionally in a nostalgic vein. This atlas of images presents nature as an absolute and the landscapes as a reality and as rapresentation of human work. We find impression, observation, and definitions, which are useful in depicting nature and the lanscape as a great achievements of art and thought. Throughout various versions of Futurism and Deconstruction, all this is tangible in the culture of landscapists. It is part of their inquisitive soul, irrespective of the work they perform, be it perspective, designing, architectural, agronomic, or humanistic
Barocco
No full textNella confusione febbrile di tante rivisitazioni e di tanti citazionismi, la categoria di barocco, di natura storico-stilistica, ha oggi un singolare ritorno
The Aesthetic Categories
No full textThe 20th century was an age of transition. In the field of aesthetics we witness a shift from clearly identifiable canon of taste to an unidentified aesthetics values. This shift can be interpretated by two opposite points of view: one in support of modern art, as theorized by Walter Benjamin, and the other against, as argued by Hans Sedlmayer
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