Antonio Somaini

Andrea Pinotti

Cultura visuale. Immagini, sguardi, media, dispositivi

Georges Didi-Huberman

Katia Pizzi

Barbara Baert

Victoria Cirlot

Salvatore Settis

Monica Centanni

Dorothee Gelhard

Clio Nicastro

Michael Diers

Filippo Perfetti

Giulia Zanon

Matilde Sergio

Giacomo Calandra di Roccolino

Ianick Takaes

In this issue of Engramma: Giulia Zanon’s Zooming Mnemosyne deals with the use of details in Warburg’s Bilderatlas, Monica Centanni’s Collateral effects of the “visibile parlare” (Dante, Pg. X, v. 95) reconstructs the hypothesis of a visual model for the legend of Trajan’s Justice, according to Warburg intuition about it; this contribution is connected of the paper by Filippo Perfetti’s Dante, Botticelli, and Trajan. An Open Note where the author investigates how Botticelli could have come to know that the bas-relief of the Arch of Constantine liberatori urbis was related to an episode in Trajan's life”. The focus of this issue is then extended to Warburg's cultural environment. Matilde Sergio’s Aby Warburg, Walter Benjaming, and the Memory of Images investigates the influence of Warburg's essay about Luther, on Benjamin's thought, while Dorothee Gelhard’s Gertrud Bing’s Scientific Beginnings reconstructs the intellectual history of Bing's doctoral thesis and its influences on Warburgian work. The theme of Warburg’s Denkraum is the focal point of Salvatore Settis’ Anselm Kiefer's Logic of Inversion: a fundamental overview of Kiefer's Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po’ di luce(Andrea Emo) on display at Sala dello Scrutinio in Palazzo Ducale, Venezia from March to October 2022. The third section of the issue is dedicated to new publications and exhibitions. Echoing Settis’ reflection on Denkraum, we present Clio Nicastro’s La Dialettica del Denkraum in Aby Warburg, published this year for Palermo University Press; an introduction to Cultural Memories: a series published by Peter Lang and edited by Katia Pizzi. Giacomo Calandra di Roccolino with Mary Hertz Warburg: Free and Unconventional reviews the exhibition of the artist Mary Hertz Warburg. The issue closes with the important Choral Reading of Il metodo di Aby Warburg by Kurt W. Forster. L’antico dei gesti. Il futuro della memoria, where Barbara Baert, Victoria Cirlot, Georges Didi-Huberman, Michael Diers, Andrea Pinotti and Ianick Takaes offer us their personal reading of Warburg’s life and thought as they are presented by Forster’s newly translated book, edited by Ronzani editore.

La Rivista di Engramma 191, aprile-maggio 2022

191 | Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods

Richard Grusin

Maurizio Ferraris

Mauro Carbone

Roberto Diodato

Alberto Abruzzese

Massimo Carboni

Francesco Casetti

Antonio Costa

Piero Boitani

Giuseppe Di Giacomo

Herman Parret

Gianfranco Bettetini

Ruggero Eugeni

Valentina Valentini

Giovanni Careri

Claudia Cieri Via

Massimo De Carolis

Massimo Prampolini

Isabella Pezzini

Roberto Perpignani

Roberto De Gaetano

Alfredo Pirri

Franco Maresco

Leonardo Amoroso

Francesco Antinucci

Silvana Borutti

Romeo Bufalo

Stefano Catucci

Pina De Luca

Georges Didi

Huberman

Edoardo Ferrario

Tarcisio Lancioni

Enrica Lisciani Petrini

Giovanna Pinna

Elena Tavani

Stefano Velotti

Costanza Quatriglio

Mario Sasso

Daniele Guastini

Adriano Ardovino

I percorsi dell’immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani è un volume che vuole rendere omaggio a uno dei maggiori studiosi italiani di estetica, di cinema, di arti e nuove tecnologie. Diviso in cinque sezioni (Filosofia, Semiotica e teoria dei linguaggi, Cinema, Teoria delle arti e Tecnica e media), che sono altrettante articolazioni di analisi e di riflessione sul presente e la contemporaneità, il libro si avvale della partecipazione di illustri studiosi italiani e internazionali: Alberto Abruzzese, Leonardo Amoroso, Francesco Antinucci, Gianfranco Bettetini, Piero Boitani, Silvana Borutti, Romeo Bufalo, Mauro Carbone, Massimo Carboni, Giovanni Careri, Francesco Casetti, Stefano Catucci, Claudia Cieri Via, Antonio Costa, Massimo De Carolis, Roberto De Gaetano, Pina De Luca, Georges Didi-Huberman, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Roberto Diodato, Ruggero Eugeni, Edoardo Ferrario, Maurizio Ferraris, Richard Grusin, Tarcisio Lancioni, Enrica Lisciani Petrini, Herman Parret, Isabella Pezzini, Giovanna Pinna, Andrea Pinotti, Massimo Prampolini, Antonio Somaini, Elena Tavani, Valentina Valentini, Stefano Velotti. Ogni sezione è inoltre chiusa da una conversazione con un artista: Franco Maresco, Roberto Perpignani, Alfredo Pirri, Costanza Quatriglio e Mario Sasso. Il volume è curato da Daniele Guastini e Adriano Ardovino.

I percorsi dell'immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani

Alessandra Violi

Barbara Grespi

Pietro Conte

If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body towards mineral modes of being which revive ancient myths of flesh-made-stone and the issue of the monument. Scholars in media, visual culture and the arts propose studies of bodies of stone, from actors simulating statues to the transmutation of the filmic body into a fossil; from the real treatment of the cadaver as a mineral living object to the rediscovery of materials such as wax; from the quest for a "thermal" equivalence between stone and flesh to the transformation of the biomedical body into a living monument.

Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts

Andrea Pinotti

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