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Frida Kahlo. Biografie illustrate di un’icona
Full text linkL’immagine di Frida Kahlo è ormai da tempo un’icona universale. Nondimeno la biografia dell’artista, altrettanto nota, sembra capace di toccare le corde più intime dell’animo umano ed è tanto ricca da generare continue riscritture e reinterpretazioni. In particolare, rileviamo la persistenza del personaggio e della sua inconfondibile immagine negli albi illustrati, nei quali, oltre alla passione dell’arte, attraverso la storia e le storie di Frida, emergono i temi dell’identità, della malattia, della disabilità, dell’amore, della fragilità, del genere. Il presente contributo si propone di osservare alcune tra le più significative pubblicazioni dedicate alla pittrice che hanno fatto la loro comparsa nel panorama editoriale destinato ai ragazzi negli ultimi venti anni in Italia e di evidenziare le scelte tematiche e stilistiche operate da autori e illustratori impegnati nel racconto della vita di un simbolo della cultura latinoamericana, espressione di resilienza, anticonformismo e emancipazione
Books That Are Like Walking in Quiet Spaces: Artist’s Books, Unreadable Books, Prebooks and Their Heirs
No full textThis paper’s aim is to be a comparative investigation of artist’s books of the second half of the twentieth century and a selection of books in the current realm of children’s publishing, in order to establish significant points of contact and intersection between the two worlds, even though they are considered distant and separate.In both arenas, it is possible to identify books characterised by the absence of verbal and iconic code and by multi-sensory communication relying almost exclusively on paratextual elements. The forerunner of these experiments seems to be Bruno Munari’s Libri Illeggibili [Unreadable Books] series, a selection of artwork that forgoes text in favour of an aesthetic function alone, which gave rise to new research, including I Prelibri [Prebooks] by Munari himself, which is a series of twelve books that differ in colour, material, and shape and that lack a narrative. The latter is a model that will become a source of inspiration, in more recent years, for the likes of Katsumi Komagata or Hervé Tullet, who are today authors of innovative ‘open works’whose communicative effectiveness derives from the hybridisation of artistic languages
"Io sarò chi voglio”. Riflettere sui vincoli culturali di genere attraverso la letteratura illustrata
No full textC. Lepri, Di bugia in bugia. Tra le pagine di narrativa per bambini e ragazzi, Pacini Editore, Pisa, 2020
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Frida Kahlo. Illustrated biographies of an icon
Full text linkL’immagine di Frida Kahlo è ormai da tempo un’icona universale. Nondimeno la biografia dell’artista, altrettanto nota, sembra capace di toccare le corde più intime dell’animo umano ed è tanto ricca da generare continue riscritture e reinterpretazioni. In particolare, rileviamo la persistenza del personaggio e della sua inconfondibile immagine negli albi illustrati, nei quali, oltre alla passione dell’arte, attraverso la storia e le storie di Frida, emergono i temi dell’identità, della malattia, della disabilità, dell’amore, della fragilità, del genere. Il presente contributo si propone di osservare alcune tra le più significative pubblicazioni dedicate alla pittrice che hanno fatto la loro comparsa nel panorama editoriale destinato ai ragazzi negli ultimi venti anni in Italia e di evidenziare le scelte tematiche e stilistiche operate da autori e illustratori impegnati nel racconto della vita di un simbolo della cultura latinoamericana, espressione di resilienza, anticonformismo e emancipazione.The image of Frida Kahlo has been recognized for a long time as a universal icon. Furthermore the artist’s biography, equally well-known, seems capable of touching the deepest chords of the human soul and looks so rich that can generates continuos rewriting and reinterpretations. In particular, we note the persistence of the character and her unmistakable image in some picturebooks in which, in addition to the passion for art, emerge the themes of identity, illness, disability, love, fragility, along with gender issues. This contribution aims to observe some of the most significant picturebooks published in Italy in the last twenty years about the painter and intends to highlight the thematic and stylistic choices made by authors and illustrators grappling with the life story of a Latin American symbol, an expression of resilience, non-conformism and emancipation
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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