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June 2020

ATEM

In agreement with the author, who does not feel his production strictly related to the book format and who thinks photography is a mutable and manifold matter, we publish a book free of the precepts that habitually regulate the flux of its content and the usual relations between the photographs and the pages. The volumeโ€™s content does not derive from a sequence of images designed according to aesthetic rules, based on formal and con
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September 2020

ALMANACCO TOILET CLUB

From 2014 to 2016, Valentina Neri worked on Toilet Club Milano, a club where a group of Drag Queens created a party out of nowhere and entered into the map as one of the most important in the Milan's gay clubbing scenes. After portraying charactersโ€™ growth and the colourful atmosphere, she continues her project working on the output. The main inspiration for the book Almanacco is La Scena Illustrata 1941, an influential Italian monthly publication born in 1884,
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June 2021

Fenomenologia dell’editoria indipendente

There are many histories of publishing but there is no overall analysis of the phenomenon we call independent publishing, the unmediated and completely free representation on paper of the history and cultural movements that have come down to us since the early twentieth century. From the journals of the artistic avant-garde, to the clandestine adventures that courageously fought against authoritarian regimes, from the birth of the fanzine phenomenon, to the first independent comics, passing thr
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February 2021

ASINARA

In the images created by Delogu what should be unheimlich, unfamiliar or even distressing, because immersed in darkness, reveals itself instead as a poetic scene from a midsummer dream: where the vibration and turmoil of life have thinned out fairytale, the dirt roads are barely glimpsed, the warning signs have been turned off because there is no longer any danger, men and animals can go free and without fear. (Edoardo Albinati)
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September 2019

ARE THEY ROCKS OR CLOUDS?

Are they rocks or clouds?ย is a territorial investigation in the Dolomites that aims, through the interaction between observation, memory and science, to the construction of a knowledge of hydrogeological risk. The concepts put into play are those of contamination, overlayering and the spatial map. Moving away from a natural fascination for the mountains, the project clearly observes the territory, looking for the possibility of measuring the risk for the inhabitants of the places w
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November 2021

Making & Being

Making and Being offers a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. Authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two visual arts educators and members of the collective BFAMFAPhD, share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes. This hands-on guide includes activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for
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