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Apocalisse

ETEL ADNAN
Apocalisse araba
Graphics and drawings by the Authoress
Preface and translation by
Toni Maraini

«An immersion into chaos towards destiny. A journey of the soul through the cartography of global immediacy rarely recorded on maps. A book which submits to Middle Eastern sensitivity, just like a book of wisdom or the Book of Changes».
JACK HIRSCHMAN

«This long poem is a shout, a semantic frenzy, a dance macabre, a postmodern prophecy. A vaticination on the tragedy of people».
TONI MARAINI, from the «Preface»

ITALIAN  |  2001, ix + 78 pp.; b/w ill. 210 x 250 mm.
ISBN 978-88-7778-032-4
   ~   EUR  21,00



Carmenvia

BERNARD ANSON SILJ
  Carmen Via.
Journey in the Songlines of Italy

Photography by  ROLFE HORN

This is a journey into the songlines of memory and imagination: the unique view of a «Wetserner» on his heritage and what it might hold for us in this age of communication overload, conflict and environmental crisis.
The landscapes of this journey release their tales of civilization, of songs of creation, of myth, of spiritual vision, of man’s age old quest through life. This book is the fruit of many years research. It is a novel and, in the same breath, a guidebook for the physical and metaphysical traveller: a rich, compelling invitation to explore the ribbons of stories woven into the landscapes of Italy.

ENGLISH  |  2005, xiv + 282 pp.; 42 b/w ill.
ISBN 978-88-7778-095-9
   ~   EUR  43,00
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Art_scientific

EUROPEAN COMMISSION ~ COMMUNITY RESEARCH
Art & Scientific Research are Free.
Towards a Culture of Life

Preface by Etienne Magnien
Among the participating authors: Evandro Agazzi, Sophie Bassis, Christopher Bigsby, James Bono, Philippe Busquin, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Patrick Cunningham, Inez de Beaufort, Victor de Lorenzo, Carl Djerassi, Anne Fagot-Lergeault, Robin Gill, Gilbert Hottoi, Fotis Kafatos, Axel Khan, Karin Knorr Cetina, Ladislav Kovác, Helga Nowotny, Hans Jörg Rheinberger, Edoardo Sanguineti, Marilyn Strathern, Gianni Vattimo, Fraser Watts and Lewis Wolpert.

An essay based on the questions debated in Genoa, Italy (2004) – within the conference organised by the European Group of Life Sciences – by leading figures from different disciplines: scientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, sociologists, policy-makers, journalists, writers and poets, on how do the most recent developments in the life sciences effect our understanding, and to assess in which way this knowledge affects visions of humanity.

ENGLISH  |  2005, xii + 84 pp.; 24 b/w ill. Index of Authors and works.
ISBN 978-88-7778-102-4   ~   EUR  35,00



 
Cinema_spiritualità

FILMSTUDIO 80
Cinema e spiritualità.
Istanze etiche, trascendenza e rappresentazione cinematografica

Edited and with an introduction by Americo Sbardella
Essays by Virgilio Fantuzzi, Elio Girlanda, Alessandro Cappabianca
Filmographic cards by Cesare Biarese and Alessandro Paesano

A series of unusual reflections on the cinema’s relationship with ethics, religion, spirituality and the sacred.

«A stimulating book, perhaps at times rather visionary in style and content […] with the intention of proposing heterogeneous reflections which cross different courses of the sacred and of the spiritual».
MICHELE MARANGI, L’Indice

«A book to read and keep at hand for all eventualities».
MARIO CALDERALE, Segnocinema

ITALIAN  |  2000, xx + 156 pp.; 30 b/w ill.; 110 filmographic cards.
ISBN 978-88-7778-065-2
   ~   EUR  25,00
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Roma

FILMSTUDIO 80
Roma nel cinema
Edited and with an introduction by Americo Sbardella
Essays by Marco Bertozzi, Alessandro Cappabianca, Bruno Di Marino, Franco Montini, Carlo Tagliabue, Mario Verdone. Interviews by Gianni Di Meo with Sergio Citti, Peter Del Monte, Franco Interlenghi, Mario Monicelli, Giovanna Ralli
Filmographic cards by Alessandro Paesano

A collection of essays from cinematographic critics and scholars – and interviews with directors and actors – born or having based their lives in Rome.

ITALIAN  |  2000, xxviii + 226 pp.; 35 b/w ill.; 85 filmographic cards. Append.
ISBN 978-88-7778-030-0
   ~   EUR  25,00
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Mezzaluna

MARIA ANTONELLA FUSCO
Lo sguardo della Mezzaluna.
Pittori italiani a Costantinopoli nell’Ottocento

Edited and with an introduction by Vincenzo Pietrini
Preface by Rossana Bossaglia

The world of Italian Orientalism in the Nineteenth century and the experiences of artists in the Ottoman capital.

«Rich in extremely beautiful and strangely mysterious illustrations this is a jewel of elegance, it lists and reinterprets the notable seraglio of exoticism – and of the picturesque – of the Italy of former times».
MARIO FORTUNATO, L’Espresso

ITALIAN  |  1998, xxii + 166 pp.; 70 col. ill., 16 b/w. Notes; bibliog..; name index; ill. index.
ISBN
978-88-7778-058-4   ~   EUR  37,00
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Paestum

HANS KAYSER
Paestum.
I suoni nascosti nei tre templi greci di Paestum

Introduction by Maria Franca Frola

In the Dorian temple Kayser sees the embodiement of the esoterical teachings of Pythagoras, the shapeing into the stone of the sound by which the cantos praised the divinity.

The Cosmos sings. The crystals sing with cadence devoted to de divine mind, the flowers sing with the unaudible rejoicing of their ethereal coloured shapes, human bodies have melodies in the astonishing beauty of their proportion. Buildings sing when the architect is an harmonical being.
MARIA FRANCA FROLA, from the
«'Introduction».

ITALIAN  |  2008, xviii + 150 pp.; 70 ill., 50 b/w photos, Notes; bibliog.; index.
ISBN 978-88-7778-103-1
   ~   EUR  30,00
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Art_pretextArte_pretesto

SAHLAN MOMO
Art as Pre-Text / Arte come pre-testo.
The spiritual-material experience in Art
Introductions by Giulio Carlo Argan
and Carlo Bertelli

T he clear theoretical expounding of the aesthetical and creative processes by a contemporary artist.

«The rhythmical repetition of the signs is, in effect, a way of passing from a quantitative reality to a reality which is pure reality, from matter to light; and Momo is still one of the few in our anguished historical condition, who believes that this is the meaning and the object of the artist’s work».
GIULIO CARLO ARGAN, from the «Introduction».


ENGLISH  & ITALIAN  |  1976, xxii + 88 pp.; 9 tab., 16 b/w ill. Notes, 290 x 200 mm.
ISBN 978-88-7778-070-6
   ~   EUR  30,00 EACH
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Franco Nonnis
Writings by Alfredo Giuliani, Simonetta Lux, Antonio Calenda,
Egisto Macchi, Enrica Torelli Landini

Reflections of an artist on his own painting devoid of a fixed orientation and of a usual spatial destination.

ITALIAN  |  1991, vi + 20 pp.; 5 b/w ill. Bio.
ISBN
978-88-7778-040-9   ~   10,00


 

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