Art and Dossier, Editorial Philippe Daverio Number 267, June 2010
The hamster, hamster called in other languages \u200b\u200bof Europe, scientifically called, when nano, Mesocricetus auratus and Phodopus if Syrian Roborovskij if Russian accumulates food reserves intact in their cheeks. The Middle East is sexually active than thirty days, the Siberian three months. Intriguing distinction. The squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, in the same family of marmots Stelvio bringing nuts and accumulates in the den to please the Disney cartoons. The ants, which represent ten percent of the entire animal biomass, accumulate and build up much more, you know, the cicada. The whole family survived only Castoridae Castor Linnaeus, Carl von Linné classified in 1758, the beaver builds much more cleverly the brother of Pollux. And Homo Sapiens Sapiens? Him (by us, including the readers of "Art and Dossier"), the only survivor all he was a prehistoric hominid Stone Age, builds and collects. Make and collect art workshop is therefore a given species. Claude Lévy-Strauss said that the transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic, long time a few millennia, our ancestors took more mental effort in the entire history of mankind. For the first time a company was formed stable aggregate, that they take the form workshop - up to the artist of the fifteenth century - and the accumulation of wealth and of the early leaders of the priests, to the collection of cardinal-nephews of the seventeenth century. The birth of the artist is a demiurge Zoroastric perhaps further evolution of species. For five centuries it is experienced. The recent appearance of the figure of Art Advisor to replace the figure of the priest collector seems less significant. We are still evolvendo.Michel de Montaigne, the French thinker of the sixteenth century, slept in a room separate from that of his wife Françoise de la Chassaigne, daughter of the President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, Conseiller d'Etat of King Charles IX. His wife managed the family property while he gave the letters with longtime friend Etienne de la Boétie. From the marriage were born six daughters. It was a sign of destiny? Montaigne liked to declare about the Lord "J'aime un peu leur commerce privé" ("I love the relationship with them, a little 'private'). Italy in the same year celebrated the severity of the Counter who were removing the formidable female figures of the early Renaissance, Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, the highly educated, his sister Beatrice, wife of the Duke of Milan, Lucrezia Borgia, who inspired the Bembo; Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo's muse; Gambara Veronica, widow of the Count of Correggio, yes fine poet moved from centuries after the twisted mind of Leopardi. Complex and independent female characters in an Italy which is the origin of the bipolar political tensions in the last thousand years in Adelaide of Savoy, supporter of the emperor, and Matilda of Canossa, partisan the papacy. The highest point of feminism was the historic meeting which they held at Canossa with the surrender of Henry IV before Gregory VII. It took centuries before it could revive the Giulia Beccaria independence of women in deciding to whom, and certainly not with her husband, she would conceive Alessandro Manzoni. Now we can finally reflect on while in western Egypt, and elsewhere, is still practiced every day, infibulation. Meanwhile, many languages \u200b\u200bin the arts developed as anthropologically male: the inguacchio of the painting, the daughter of salsa medieval - that tomboy who was cooperating with the carver for the organization of symposia - As well as conducting, inspired by the order of hosts. The world of women have entered the world of arts, but not following a mere variation of equal opportunity, even altering and enriching the language used. Braudel is right in saying that the center of the house is the hearth of the Mediterranean barbaric but the chassis wise Penelope. The arts of today have unknowingly taken advantage of the new intake old, have learned a new manual object, that of Meret Oppenheim such as Sonia Delaunay. The future will be intriguing.
