“gianfranco maraniello”

Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson.... More

The Premio Furla per l'arte is an important Italian contemporary art award, now in its sixth edition, and the five finalists with work included here--Alice Cattaneo, Elenia Depedro, Nicola Gobbetto, Luca Trevisani and Nico Vascellari--are worth meeting. The award itself was designed by Mona Hatoum.... More

Like a TV screen, Cristiano Pintaldi's paintings are alchemies of color in which the tonalities of red, green, and blue, on a black canvas, construct pictures recognizable only from a distance. Confronting the powerful, persuasive images of mass media, Pintaldi references realities that are not part... More

One of the key members of the 1960s Arte Povera movement, Giovanni Anselmo remains one of the most respected and poetic artists working today. Since 1965, when he was suddenly struck by his relative size within the vast energy and structure of the universe, he has devoted himself to an ongoing inves... More

Hovering between generosity and insult, seduction and trap, homage and defiance, the gift is a gesture with which relations are established and desires intertwined. In a world in which personal interactions are more and more sternly regulated, in which the symbolic value of things has been lost, to ... More

Batteries for Portable Devices provides a comprehensive overview of all batteries used in portable electric and electronic, as well as medical devices. These range from the cellular phone to portable CD and cardiac pacemakers to remote micro-sensors. The author looks at the behaviour of batteries in... More

In this highly readable and compact introduction to Durkheim's thought, Gianfranco Poggi examines all of Durkheim's central works and assesses their significance today, a century after his death. Poggi's analyses includes a study of what Durkheim meant by 'society' and an evaluation of Durkheim's co... More

A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, "The Philosophy of Money," published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be read... More

In 1987 the discovery of "high temperature superconductors" captured the attention of the scientific world. Here Professor Vidali describes how conventional superconductivity was discovered, why it exists, and possible future applications. This work can be read by any general reader with an interest... More