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Voce Arte Treccani 2020

2020, ARTE in Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani

This text aims to investigate the new meaning of the term Art, starting from the point of view of Contemporary Visual Art. Having examined a number of artworks in their dynamic, and compared several theoretical positions, from the field of Philosophy to those of Sociology, Psychology, and Biology, it the conclusion attributes to the word Art a vast series of characteristics, among which emerges as a particularly relevant one that of creating narratives, formulating ipothesys, bringing to reality what is possible but not actual, showing exempla of what could be.