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AUTHOR
Mantoan D.
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Le soglie e i custodi delle arti. Una nota introduttiva
2016
Introduction to the special issue devoted to philosophy and art theory of the art system.
La Parola di Dio iscritta sulla pelle nella prassi artistica post-concettuale di Douglas Gordon
2021
The paper offers an analysis of how tattoos, although they only very recently established a niche of their own in contemporary art, became an important medium of religious art, particularly for Christianity. A central character is identified in Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, a celebrity of todays art world, who addressed the relationship with the Word of God already in his early works. Indeed, Gordon's tattoos are textual and inscribe the body with words. Penance and faith, possession and salvation are at the center of his creativity and find tattoos to be a convenient vehicle to confer a newly rediscovered sacred dimension to the body. In Gordons works the inscription acquires a religious…