Polemos: L'Opera d'arte tra conflitto e superamento [The Work of Art Between Conflict and Resolution]

[ART]. Eds. Daniela Cristadoro, Angela Madesani. Contributors: Shirin Neshat, William Kentridge, Christian Boltanski, et al. "Polemos: L'Opera d'arte tra conflitto e superamento [The Work of Art Between Conflict and Resolution]." Milan, IT: Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2006. English and Italian languages. Softcover with French flaps. Text with full-color photos. 10 1/2 x 9 inches. 41 oz. 190 pp. Former library copy with library tape, stamps, card pocket. Covering of spine torn off. Text clean. Acceptable. No returns for condition. Reading copy only. ISBN: 8836607209. "The volume accompanies an exhibition set up in the fortress of Gavi, whose subject is conflict in the work of art. The emphasis of the exhibition falls on the Greek word polemos whose primary meaning, war, alludes to the conflict from which the cosmos takes its origin and form. Polemos, said the philosopher Heraclitus, is the mother of all things: and it is in art more than anywhere else that conflict manifests itself, expressing in symbolic form the entire network of relationships that human beings establish with the reality that surrounds them. The work of art, therefore, is a 'battlefield' where, from time to time, particular conflicts take shape: between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality; between light and shadow; between full and empty; between the eye of the beholder and the thing seen; between the visible and the invisible.". …