Seven notes on toy boxes, artists and art history

Autor: Antonella Sbrilli
Jazyk: English<br />Italian
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Festival dell'Architettura Magazine, Vol 0, Iss 51, Pp 42-48 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2039-0491
DOI: 10.1283/fam/issn2039-0491/n51-2020/325
Popis: Giotto and construction sets; LEGO: “Play well” and build; What artists played at when they were little; The doll’s house with a Duchamp; Joseph Cornell’s boxes; Boîtes and “mise-en-boîte; The history of art-in-a-box: these are the titles of the seven incursions into the relationships between art, games, toys and assemblage presented in this article. Savinio’s observation that Giotto’s scenes in the Scrovegni Chapel follow the instructions of the “Piccolo Architetto” (a children’s construction set) is tied to recent research on the relationship between construction sets and art education, while around the conceptual theme of the portable box containing archaeological finds and miniatures are condensed important experiences of 20th-century art, from Duchamp and Cornell to the Boîtes exhibition. Art plays with games and games are fuelled by art and art history which – through current phenomena like gamification – offer themselves as a repertoire of works to be dismantled and reassembled, sequences of spaces and places to be crossed, a palimpsest of times and levels to climb.
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