{"id":2285,"date":"2021-01-21T18:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigfive.it\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:38:38","slug":"because-those-who-work-with-images-should-read-figures-by-riccardo-falcinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigfive.it\/en\/perche-chi-lavora-con-le-immagini-dovrebbe-leggere-figure-di-riccardo-falcinelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Why those who work with images should read Figures by Riccardo Falcinelli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let's start by saying what Figure is an exceptional, perhaps epochal book<\/strong>. We can say it without hesitation because Riccardo Falcinelli's is not a simple essay. It's much more.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The author takes us by the hand through the history of art passing from cave paintings, to the Renaissance, up to TV series<\/strong>, with an unsettling fluidity, showing us how everything is connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book is not an essay on art history (even if over 400 works are illustrated inside), rather the author, with aclean and tidy layout<\/a><\/strong>, purposely omits all image captions. He writes \u201cbefore being examples of art, the works are considered as evidence of mechanisms and ways of reasoning\u201d. Why Falcinelli does not want to tell us the meaning of a painting, or the meaning of a frame from a Kubrick film: he wants to explain to us how images work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figures by Riccardo Falcinelli answers questions we have probably never asked ourselves:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n