The correspondence between sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro and writer Francesco Leonetti, only recently analysed, has proven to be a significant source for reconstructing not only Leonetti’s biography but also some of the principles...
Adorno, Kracauer, Ortega y Gasset: these are just a few of the thinkers who, at the turn of the 20th Century, expressed critical views on cinema and the way it affects its...
Edoardo Sanguineti’s second novel Il Giuoco dell’Oca was written between 1963 – the year of the publication of Capriccio italiano – and 1967, and it was conceived as the ideal second step...
In his lengthy 1960s correspondence with architectural historian Bruno Zevi, from Bogotà architect Angiolo Mazzoni lamented that, unlike many of his colleagues who worked under Mussolini, not only he had to move...
In Carlo Emilio Gadda’s modernist works, dress never constitutes a merely instrumental element of narrative. Rather, it serves to reflect the social habitus of a character, or its very habits of being....
In 1972, the Dutch visual poet Herman Damen published an outstanding critical text illustrating the daring and multifaceted expressions of neo-avant-garde experimental poetry as follows: ‘a living poesia visiva uses all available...
Artist Toti Scialoja (1914-1998) was a man of many talents: while a poet, first and and foremost, he quit writing after a negative review and for years devoted himself to painting and...
Take the language of comic strips and give it to one of the most charismatic avant-garde singers. Pair her with an abstract painter who doubles in graphic design. Wrap up by putting...
There is a photograph, taken around 1920, of the Olivetti manager Domenico Burzio. Olivetti was the first Italian company to make a typewriter, and it went on, after World War II, to...
Cultural history is full of examples of the fascinating interactions between art and literature. The verbal representation of an image known as ‘ekphrasis’, famously seen in Homer’s description of the shield of...