by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Oct 5, 2018 | Senza categoria
In every period of post-paleolithic art the anthropomorph is the most represented subject. In the logic of archaic religion, the ordinary movements performed by the man in daily life are not object of representation. Sacred iconography highlights only the most...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Sep 22, 2018 | Senza categoria
Bullroarers used by kids of Friuli, northern Italy (from Battaglia, 1921). The bullroarer is a small wooden board, shaped flat, of various size, often decorated with abstract marks, with a hole to which a short rope (made of vegetable fibres or animal hairs) is...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Sep 13, 2018 | Senza categoria
In western tradition communication takes place mainly through acts of speech, with respect to which mimicry assumes an increasingly secondary importance. The oldest attestation of this fact is provided by Aristotle who states that there is a close correspondence...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Aug 31, 2018 | Senza categoria
A dance is the formal result of a certain kind of symbolic transformation of reality. The instinct that moves the dancer is that of measuring and forming the space with his own body. In the archaic conception life is certified by the presence of movement. A primary...
