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Tiziano Scarpa

Tiziano Scarpa

Tiziano Scarpa was born in Venice in 1963, Since 1996, he has published novels, story collections, essays, poems and theatre pieces. Among his works on contemporary art is the novel Il brevetto del geco (Einaudi, 2016): it tells the story of Federico Morpio, an inspired and depressed artist seeking recognition. Scarpa has written essays and fiction on many artists, including Giorgio De Chirico, Mimmo Rotella, Alberto Savinio, Anish Kapoor, Magnus, Ryan Mendoza, Tino Sehgal, Stefano Arienti, Luca Bertolo, Bertozzi and Casoni, Mauro Ceolin, Andrea Contin, Paola Di Bello, Flavio Favelli, Maurizio Finotto, Luigi Gardenal, Francesca Ghermandi, Massimo Giacon, Fausto Gilberti, Marco Lodola, Bruno Muzzolini, Cristiano Pintaldi, Silvano Rubino, Wolfgang Stehle, and Fabio Visintin.

 

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Storia dell'estetica occidentale. Da Omero alle neuroscienze

Fabrizio Desideri, Chiara Cantelli
Storia dell'estetica occidentale. Da Omero alle neuroscienze
Carocci Editore, Roma 2020

A history of aesthetics from its Greek origins to modern times, in an edition updated to the new frontiers of philosophic research in this field.
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Storia dell'estetica occidentale. Da Omero alle neuroscienze
Autocurriculum

Emilio Isgrò
Autocurriculum
Sellerio Editore, Palermo 2017

A theatrical sabotage of the autobiographical genre, in which artist-eraser Emilio Isgrò thinks back over the life and encounters of someone who looks remarkably like him.
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25 modi per piantare un chiodo. Sessant’anni di idee e progetti per difendere un sogno

Enzo Mari
25 modi per piantare un chiodo. Sessant’anni di idee e progetti per difendere un sogno
Mondadori, Milano 2020

Enzo Mari talks about himself with the curious and practical spirit of a child who gains knowledge by learning to experiment and make his way in the world.
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25 modi per piantare un chiodo. Sessant’anni di idee e progetti per difendere un sogno
Glossary of cognitive activism (for a not so distant future)

Warren Neidich
Glossary of cognitive activism (for a not so distant future)
Archive Books, Berlino 2019

A glossary conceived as a tool to analyse and resist the new realities of neurocapitalism, with definitions derived from political philosophy, media studies, and neuroscience.
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Glossary of cognitive activism (for a not so distant future)
Duchamp. La scienza dell'arte

Marco Senaldi
Duchamp. La scienza dell'arte
Meltemi, Milano 2020

A voyage back in time in the works of Duchamp: an exercise in testing one’s ability to see and perceive, as well as to exist.
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Duchamp. La scienza dell'arte

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