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The evolution of linguistics, psychology, history of and an interpretation at the same time: a course into
religions and history of art, the problems of signs, of space of an artistic personality. The relations between
symbols and myths have in fact been considered in art, literature and philosophy are a continuum: from
their relationship with the methods and principles of Ficino and Leonardo to Rilke and Rodine, to Beckett
their various interpretations. In this way the study and Bacon, up to the contemporary minimalists.
of the history of art can not be separated from any Therefore art criticism must not be a merely structural
of the other humanistic disciplines, because it is construction (without art), but a vital, dynamic
indispensable for a broader and correct comprehension portrait of a work where the many types, not the many
of the various fields of human knowledge and of reality substances, are the subjects because, otherwise, there
itself. If a symbol represents one of the elements would be established a factious hierarchy that can not
generally common to the various disciplines then absolutely take place.
the history of art can become not only the history of Precisely in the name of interdisciplinary we
semiotics but of all those disciplines that in the past should deeply commit ourselves to overcome the
shared the field of signs and symbols - semantics, ’perception’ of artistic language that distinguishes
logic, rhetoric, investigation, aesthetics, philosophy, a creative experience, towards a broader dimension
ethnology, psychoanalysis, poetics -. and of some of of the imaginative production, able to maintain the
their subjects named, from time to time, imitation and irreducible plurality of the ways of sense, by virtue of a
beauty, education and pleasure, tropes and figures, research which preserves a work from the particularity
condensation and movement. Through the study of the of fashions and of temporal restrictions, proposing
history of art, of signs and symbols, we put forward as a reading for inner courses, easily understood by
a possibility the research of a plural and typological everyone.
thought, which maintains the differences without
emphasizing it. A methodological principle where the ANdREA PAGNES
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