the first European festival on creativity

2011 Programme

Evento n.14

Gian Carlo Calza

Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West

An event designed to address the theme of creativity in Eastern writing and art, and its relationship with Western culture. Gian Carlo Calza will deal with three aspects of oriental aesthetics that are often taken separately in the West: meditation, writing and painting. Especially in East Asia, these three dimensions jointly represent a unified way to knowledge, as recently confirmed by some of the latest neuroscience research. In his talk, Calza will identify the higher sources of creativity in Asia and in the West starting from the debate on elite and mass culture to arrive at the analysis of the eccentric and the extraordinary.

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Gian Carlo Calza

teaches History of East Asian Art at Venice’s Ca’ Foscari university, where he is a member of the steering board. He directs the International Hokusai Research Center, with seats in Venice and in Milan. He has promoted and coordinated a number of international conferences on related topics, and has been the scientific consultant to some of the most important Oriental art exhibitions in Italy, including Design Giapponese. Una storia dal 1950, set up in 1995 at Milan’s Triennale. Among Calza’s critical essays on the classical and modern art of East Asia are: Cina (Einaudi, 2002); Hiroshige. Il maestro della natura (Skira, 2009); Il canto del guanciale e altre storie (Phaidon, 2010); Hokusai. Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura (edited in 1999), Gengji. Il principe splendente (2008), Utamaro e il quartiere del piacere (2009), all three published by Electa.


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Zygmunt Bauman

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Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West

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Salvatore Veca

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Vittorio Gregotti

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Enzo Bianchi

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Patrizia Cavalli

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Edoardo Boncinelli

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Silvio Orlando

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Evento n.24

Alessandro Barbero

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Franco Borgogno

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Evento n.27

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Michela Marzano

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Evento n.29

Alfonso Berardinelli

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Evento n.30

Luca Scarlini

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Evento n.31

Felice Cimatti

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Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna

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Evento N.34

Ennio Peres

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