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Andrea Pinotti is laureate of the Wissenschaftspreis 2018
Aby-Warburg-Stiftung awards its scholar's prize to Professor of Università degli Studi di Milano
Professor Andrea Pinotti holds the Chair for Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan. He was a Fellow at different international institutions such as The Italian Academy at Columbia University, the Warburg Institute in London, the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin, and the Institut d’études avancées and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.
His main research areas are visual culture studies and sciences of art. His monographs include, among others: Il corpo dello stile. Storia dell’arte come storia dell’estetica a partire da Semper, Riegl, Wölfflin (1998); Estetica della pittura (1997, spanish translation: Estética de la pintura, 2011); Memorie del neutro. Morfologia dell’immagine in Aby Warburg (2001); Empatia. Storia di un’idea da Platone al postumano (2011, french translation: Empathie. Histoire d’une idée de Platon au post-humain, 2016).
Together with Antonio Somaini, he edited the anthology Teorie dell’immagine. Il dibattito contemporaneo in 2009 and in 2016 the book Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi.
Currently, he works on a phenomenology of virtual immersive environments.
On December 4th, 2018, 7 p.m., Andrea Pinotti will hold his laureate lecture at the Warburg-Haus on politico-iconological strategies in the age of internet memes:
“Replik der Gewalt, Replik auf die Gewalt” (Replica of violence, Replica to violence)
Wissenschaftspreis
Call for Papers: Studienkurs »Medialität des Sakralen« 24. – 28. September 2018
Deadline: 7. Mai 2018
Medialität des Sakralen Bilder und Vermittlungsstrategien des Heiligen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit Studienkurs Warburg-Haus (24. – 28.9.2018) Leitung: Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt und Lena Marschall, M.A., Universität Hamburg Wird die Welt in getrennten Sphären von Diesseits und…
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