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Un'infanzia fatta di scienza e arte
2020
I contributi presentati in questo volume echeggiano tra di loro come un gioco di risonanze che travalicano ogni confine tra discipline per scavare tra le radici dell’umanità. Il testo è diviso in due parti idealmente collegate da una comune prospettiva sui bambini e sul loro modo conoscere e di entrare in relazione col mondo con gli occhi delle scienze e delle arti. L’approccio olistico, la curiosità e l’immaginazione, la libertà esplorativa e il piacere di creare connessioni tra le cose su piani diversi coinvolge totalmente singoli soggetti e gruppi, menti e corpi secondo una logica che rende impossibile segnare una demarcazione netta tra scienza e arte, soprattutto quando si parla di bamb…
Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery
2019
International audience; Art and Science in Word and Image investigates the theme of ‘riddles of form’, exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form on Modernist practices as springboard into the theme, contributors consider engagements with mysteries of natural form in painting, photography, fiction, etc., as well as theories about cosmic forces, and other fields of knowledge and enquiry. Hence the collection also deals with topics including cultural inscriptions of gardens and landscapes, deconstructions of received history through word and i…
Il fascino dell’intuizione femminile: Marie Trautmann (in Jaëll), pianista, pedagoga e ricercatrice
2020
Over the centuries, the differences between genders have led to strong disparities for the assertion of women’s artistic value. In the history of music, in particular, many women musicians did not get the right recognition because of a cultural context that could not enhance their work. This is the case of Marie Trautmann, better known as Marie Jaëll (1846-1925), wife of the Austrian concert pianist Alfred Jaëll (1832-1882). Trautmann is a 19th century woman-musician and an important figure in the history of music still to be discovered, not only for her activity as concert pianist, composer, pedagogue, but mainly for her empirical research work, which aimed at improving the piano technique…