Edizioni Engramma

Since its first issues, Engramma has come to terms with images in war. In 2001, after the attack on the Twin Towers; in 2015, an issue dedicated to the abecedaries of Aby Warburg, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernst Jünger; at the end of 2015, an issue on the martyrdom of Palmyra, dedicated to the archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad. But already since 2008 Engramma has hosted various contributions and devoted several monographic issues to the protection of cultural heritage, wartime destruction and post-war reconstruction. March 2022 – and it is war time again.

The Engramma issue "A cosa servono, ancora, i miti greci?" focuses on Teatro dei Borgia and their trilogy Medea per strada, Eracle, l'invisibile, and Filottete dimenticato (Medea on the Streets, The Invisible Heracles, The Forgotten Philoctetes).

This issue analyzes the different practices, uses and meaning of the cut in the humanities and social sciences. Through a careful selection of specific case studies and methodological perspectives, this collection of essays intends to offer an overview of some of the multiple areas of intersection between different ways of approaching the notion of cut: as a tool of analysis and representation, as a means of production identifying an artistic genre, as an operator to visually affirm an awareness of the power of art-making processes, and as a method of rupture and innovation, each time producing new approaches to the primary elements of artistic making (matter, space, forms), new affirmations of the artist’s status, and new forms of mediation and re-mediation. It includes contributions by Maria Luisa Catoni, Camilla Pietrabissa, Maja-Lisa Müller, Costanza Caraffa, Sara Romani, Laura Di Fede, Agnese Ghezzi, Linda Bertelli, Sonia Colavita, Maria Giusti, Laura Forti and Francesca Leonardi.

Engramma numero 180, all art is been contemporary, a cura di Vittoria Magnoler e Lucrezia Not, è dedicato alle diverse espressioni artistiche dell'arte contemporanea.

Engramma numero 182, Che cosa significa, allora, Ninfa?, a cura di Vittoria Magnoler e Lucrezia Not, è dedicato a diverse questioni riguardanti la figura della Ninfa e riunisce contributi di: Ada Naval García; Lucrezia Not; Seminario Mnemosyne (coordinato da Monica Centanni e Sara Agnoletto, con Maria Bergamo, Ilaria Grippa, Ada Naval, Alessandra Pedersoli, Filippo Perfetti, Daniela Sacco, Filippo Rizzonelli, Giulia Zanon); Filippo Perfetti; Luca Mazzoni; Victoria Cirlot; Bill Sherman; Salvatore Settis.