Search results for "R. Cailloi"
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L’estetica del camuffamento animale. Riflessioni sul mimetismo biologico
2016
This article wants to investigate the logic of mimicry and their communicative function in animal life adopting an aesthetical perspective. The relationship between appearance and not-appearance, between the act of making itself visible and the act of disguising itself, is investigated starting from the morphological thought of the Swiss biologist Adolf Portmann, in a continuous dialogue with great thinkers of past and actual time – Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Hannah Arendt and Roger Caillois – and with the artistic illustrations of the American painter Abbott Thayer, concerned with the laws of color camouflage. This productive relationship among biology, aesthetics and artistic practice allows…
Melanconia e immaginazione. Una genealogia fantastica per Melencolia I
2007
Il saggio indaga il concetto di melanconia nell'opera di R. Caillois Trois lecons des Ténèbres, tenendo conto della tradizione iconografica dureriana e della "scrittura" delle pietre. La mistica materiale suggerita dall'osservazione del mondo minerale permette a Caillois di assimilarsi alla natura delle pietre.