Nino Migliori, bolognese classe 1923, è una delle figure fondamentali del panorama fotografico italiano – e non solo – che sin dai primi anni di attività ha saputo dare un contributo profondamente originale a quel dibattito estetico che andava delineandosi negli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso, bilicato, com’era, tra il formalismo di eredità cr…[Read more]

Mai come in questo periodo così difficile torna attuale il tema del rapporto tra l’uomo e la Natura. Una relazione dinamica e complessa che ha visto nella progressiva emancipazione tecnica dell’essere umano, la necessità dell’altra di essere salvaguardata, conservata e protetta, in un’inesorabile inversione dei ruoli che ha visto l’uomo da…[Read more]

In an era of transformative open access journal agreements, the article examines the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project through a transformative lens. How might we apply transformativeness to open access monograph publishing? Is transformativeness measured in strictly financial and transactional terms, or…[Read more]

Never more than at the present time, so fraught with difficulty, has the question of mans’s relationship with nature been so topical. A complex, dynamic relationship in which the progressive technical emancipation of man has accompanied a growing need for nature to be safeguarded, preserved and protected – the result of an inexorable inversion of…[Read more]

Enjoy Caustic Humour! * Caustic Humour by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA

This article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]

There’s an old story about a young person who finds something magical in the woods. They return to it again and
again. Each visit bringing joy to their felt-sense of being alive. Eventually as people do, they tell someone else. The
good news spreads and others start to visit. Then crowds gather, which need to be organized. It isn’t long bef…[Read more]

IGNIS – by PRURITUS MIGRANS – CC: BY-NC-ND

Representations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium which was chosen for them. The essays in this volume consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream reports and fic…[Read more]

This exhibition review examined “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist,” recently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. This exhibition is a traveling show and this venue was its second installation.