Stefano Bardini’s Sculptor from Philadelphia: A.E. Harnisch & the Manufacture of Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the late Nineteenth Century Lynn Catterson Albert E. Harnisch (1843-1918), the sculptor and painter born and trained in Philadelphia, relocated in 1869 to Rome, where he enjoyed success, including commissions from America for public monuments. His legacy includes many high-quality…

Piero Manzoni, Libera dimensione Andrea Mirabile The essay analyzes Piero Manzoni’s Libera dimensione (published in 1960 in the second and last issue of the journal «Azimuth»). Manzoni argues that figurative painting is dead, critical commentaries of a work of art are useless, and verbal language in general is incapable of interpreting, translating, and even describing…

“Featuring” e collaborazione creativa nelle arti visive. Maria Lai e Antonio Marras Giuliana Altea The term “featuring” is currently used in music to indicate creative partnerships between artists from close or distant genres, with cultural as well as marketing goals. In this paper I apply the concept of featuring to a type of collaboration that…