Books
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Il prezzo del vivere "per l'arte". Scritti su Piero Parigi The price of life "for the art". Writes on Piero Parigi by Silvia Huober, 2010 Second volume of "Stanze di artisti" about the nineteenth century, which is difficult to understand, a century where philosophy, psychoanalysis, art and history are linked together. A century in which new "rooms" and paths to knowledge appeared. After the book on Primo Conti this one with its characteristic white and black, synonyms and symbolic of the xylographic production of Pietro Parigi, with a unique sensibility. Immagini del bambino e dell'adolescente nel Rinascimento. Percorsi evolutivi dell'arte in Toscana Child' and adolescent images in the Renaissance. Evolutive paths in the art in Tuscany by Ivan Nicoletti and Sara Ugolini, 2010. Some critical writing about a change of mentality, a new way of conceptualizing and considering the child and adolescent development, typical of the Renaissance in the works of the most important Tuscan Renaissance artists. An original scientific contribution that establishes a new chapter in the "History of auxological studies": research in works of art, in a modern age, a greater knowledge of the evolution of the somatic structure of the growing boy. The critical point of view of some researchers in several disciplines (medicine, psychology, history and art criticism) relating to the physical, psychological, social aspects of the world of youth during the Renaissance. An attention to the variety and the variability of somatic, psychological and relational traits that precede by centuries the birth and growth of the science of development and psychology. "Al femminile" edited by Sandra Teroni, 2010. A particular focus on gender, literary persons and writers, who raise some questions for us, starting with the great myths of classicism and continuing through some works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Authors: Alba Andreini, Chiara Carpita, Matteo De Simone, Anna Ferruta, Massimo Fusillo, Nadia Fusini, Alessandra Ginzburg, Sandra Landi, Graziella Magherini, Anita Raja, Gabriella Ripa di Meana, Sandra Teroni, Laura Tognoli.

Ecce mater. La Madonna del latte e le sante galattofore. Arte iconografica e devozione in Toscana fra Trecento e Cinquecento by Iacopo Cassigoli, 2009. In Byzantine artistic culture this book on the representation of maternity has a problematic iconographic genesis, starting from Christianity and its origins about which the book is dealing. The innovative perception of the body following the francescana revolution, from which is coming the empathic language in Florence and Siena of the visual arts with Giotto and Lorenzetti. A chapter is devoted to the relic of probable templar origin - Latte della Madonna, in the church of Piteglio, an object of secular devotion living in the last "informatrici" tales.

Arte terapia. L'eredità della bottega rinascimentale Art Therapy. The inheritance of the Renaissance shop edited by Carlo Federico Castagni, 2009 Work in the field of art therapy of Il Melograno, Day Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Forence, of Centro per l'arte contemporanea "Luigi Pecci" in Prato, Centro Terapeutico of ASL in Florence (CTP), Casa Famiglia "La Famiglia" in Lucca. The videos are from October 2007 of the workshop in Archivio di Stato in Florence, "Art Therapy", inheritance of the "Renaissance shop".

Crescere con la musica. Dal corpo al pensiero musicale Growing up with the music: From the body to the musical thinking editedy Roberto Caterina, Graziella Magherini, Simona Nirenstein Katz, 2009. The title has a double meaning: like a benevolent presence, music accompanys individual growth; on the other hand it is a tool for growth with the achievement of important ends in the cognitive and affective areas. The studies presented follow this double reading of the human-music relationship: in the earliest life experiences, in the biological heredity one recognizes the distinctive traits of musical language ...Music has the power of sound to regulate emotions and create the therapeutic processes wherein the physical, mental and social disorders of some people who manifest a difficulty in maintaining intense and sad feelings are helped.

La voce della poesia The voice of poetry edited by Sandra Teroni, 2009. Freud often said that poets understand many of the truths he was discovering. Starobinski remind us that the poet is a "link between the darkness of the drives and systematic and rational knowledge". A reflection on the processes ruling our memories of poetry, with some readings of famous poets of our time. Papers of Simona Argentieri, Gianfranca Balestra, Arnaldo Ballerini, Marisa Bulgheroni, Jorge Canestri, Fiorenza Ceragioli, Stefano Ferrari, Sergio Givone, Sandra Landi, Graziella Magherini, Francesco Orlando, Stefania Nicasi, Adolfo Pazzagli, Antonio Prete, Arrigo Stara.

Tra vita e arte: follia e morte in Edward Munch Between life and art: madness and death in Edward Munch by Gianfranco Bruno, Stefano Ferrari, Luca Trabucco, 2008. The human and artistic paths of Munch are a net in which the life facts are written through artistic language, to arrive to a resolution of the interstices of his own life. Life and art link the reader and the art historian Gianfranco Bruno about the meaning of memory on the affective relations, the psychoanalyst Trabucco deals with the formal painting particulars and the deep functions of the mind. The historic Ferrari underlines the relation between the artistic creativity and the reparative function.

La lotta con l'angelo. Scritti su Primo Conti The fight with the angel. Writings on Primo Conti ByStefano De Rosa, Graziella Magherini, 2008. In 2008 there were many initiatives for Primo Conti, to commemorate the twenty years since his death (1988-2008). Among these writings dedicated to the "maestro" was "The fight with the angel". Many are out-of-print writings by researchers close to Primo, referring to a particular passion, with a portrait of the man and of the artist: The life of a precocious painter, but with the special feature of "happiness", "full of life and works", "fresh and always young", "ethic of the fatigue", "the will and capacity of being" and yet more. In the book there is also an interview with Primo Conti by his friend Graziella Magherini.

Trittico d'arte. Esperienze scolastiche di educazione sul campo Trittico of art. School experiences of education on the field by Carla Morettini, Mirella Bongioanni, Rita Finato, 2008. Introduzione di Jennifer Celani e Paolo Berruti. 2008. The book is neither a textbook nor a vademecum with instructions. Through the emotional resource of artwork, it is intended to bring to a level of consciousness the personal, artistic, moral, social and religious elements, offering them to the child. If children's drawings are the creative way of "doing", to see the art representation is the perceptive moment of "feeling": internal and external worlds are reciprocally connected to the development of the personality.

Ascolto del testo 2 Hearing of text 2 edited by Sandra Teroni, 2008 In the second cycle of meetings "Psychoanalysis and literature" (January-May 2007), the ideas of philosophers, writers, psychoanalysts and psychologists are compared on the subject of some important European works of literature: I promessi sposi, La tempesta, Faust, Alla ricerca del tempo perduto. Some contributions of famous writers Giovanni Albertocchi, Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Annalisa Ferretti Levi Montalcini, Annamaria Laserra, Clara Mucci, Adolfo Pazzagli, Paolo Rossi, Alessandro Serpieri, Sergio Vitale.

L'immagine del corpo in psicoanalisi e nell'arte The body image in Psychoanalysis and Art by Elsa J. Blum, Harold Blum, Adolfo Pazzagli, 2007 Contains highly stimulating and scholarly papers, originally presented at the May 2005 Florence symposium on psychoanalysis and art. The papers from the two disciplines are complementary, as well as contrasting in their points of view. Readers will find the psychoanalytical insights and historical perspectives both fascinating and enlightening. Discussions of artists and their works, representing a variety of periods, places and styles provide a multifaceted unique panorama.

La misura e la grazia The measure and the grace by Sandra Gosso, 2007 Psychoanalysis and literature linked with clinical-theorical competences, aesthetic sensibility and methodological prudence. To these there is an updating of the Freudian reflections on art after the recent and suggestive conceptions of Klein, Winnicott and Bion using the categories of Donald Meltzer.

Mi sono innamorato di una statua. Oltre la sindrome di Stendhal I've fallen in love with a statue. Beyond the Stendhal Syndrome by Graziella Magherini, italian and english text 2007. The author explains that that vision, the encounter with the work of art, activates deeply submerged elements of our personality: the Freudian unconscious, the repressed, things experienced and then forgotten but it also stirs to life more primitive, archaic emotional experiences never grasped by the conscious self. Art can make us feel things we have never expressed, never known.

L'ascolto del testo Listening to the Text by Sandra Teroni, 2007. "The poets are precious friends, and their testimonies must be highly considered, as they usually know a variety of things between heaven and earth which our philosophy doesn't imagine. In the spirit of knowledge they are far beyond us, common people, as they use sources not yet open to the sciences". Contributions of Beatrice Alfonzetti, Marino Biondi, Mimma Bresciani Califano, Stefano Ferrari, Annalisa Ferretti Levi Montalcini, Sandra Landi, Lorenzo Lorenzi, Adolfo Pazzagli, Sandra Teroni, GiulianoToraldo di Francia referring the cycle of meeting "Psychoanalysis and literature"

Florilegio. Scritti d'autore 2006 Florilegio 2006 edited by Paolo Berruti, 2007. "The interpretation of the studies of the Association - and these writings are a tool - often revealing and sometimes surprising - about the artists and the art works, about which we think we know everything. They extend the panorama of the studies in various directions. The contributions (Paolo Berruti, Carlo Bonomi, Nadia Buonamici, Cristina Canzio, Paola Capitani, Jennifer Celani, Alida Cresti, Antonio Di Benedetto, Anna Erede, Stefano Ferrari, Silvia Huober, Carla Lomi, Pierandrea Lussana, Graziella Magherini, Barbara Santoro, Sara Ugolini) touch themes belonging to each of us, and so we will leave more concerned, even if with a new emotion and less prejudice: and with the capacity to cast a new look at works even if very famous ones." (from the preface of Cristina Acidini).

Il linguaggio dell'arte fra trauma e riparazione Art language between trauma and reparation Edited by Silvia Huober, 2006. With the contribution of Silvia Bastiani, Carlo Federico Catagni, Stefano Ferrari, Patrizia Magherini, Chiara Piazzasi. With some reproductions of Antonio Manzi. "Texts of the workshop of 24th of November 2004 by Archivio di Stato di Firenze on Art language: between trauma and reparation. Stefano Ferrari, Chiara Piazzesi, Carlo Federico Catagni, Patrizia Magherini, Silvia Bastiani, Silvia Huober, express their ideas, hypotheses, theories on the reparative feeling in the different values which distinguish one art from another but we cover it with thousand cautions as a function of service and care, the so-called art-therapy."

La Terrazza del mistero 2. La Allegoria Sacra di Giovanni Bellini Testo in italiano e inglese, 2006. The terrace of Mystery 2. The Holy allegory of Giovanni Bellini Italian and english text 2006 With two new contributions, which start with the restoration of the painting: one of Antonio Natali, with a new point of view on the table, the other one of Mariarita Signorini, with some relevant statements from the same restoration. The poetical line which is coming from the belliniana figuration and its mystery are the reason for the users' strong interest. Like a second chapter or sequel, for this reason the work is titled: The terrace of mystery 2

Dalle opere di Albrecht Dürer. L'immagine della melanconia fra psicopatologia e arte From the Works of Albrecht Dürer. The Image of Melancholy between Psychopathology and Art 2005 By Silvia Huober and Adolfo Pazzagli,with some reproductions of Dürer. Workshop devoted to the Melancolia (Biblioteca Magliabechiana degli Uffizi, Firenze). The interpretation, reading and analysis of Melancolie, one of the most famous etchings of Albrecht Dürer, was given by the historian of art Silvia Huober, after whom there followed Giovanni Cassano (psychiatric), Adolfo Pazzagli (clinical psychological) with Graziella Magherini as chair. In our era, of the dialogue and research among "different faiths and religions", this meeting had a symbolic meaning. To deal the theme of malinconie, begun by Dürer, man and artist, it has reached a real dialogue with three voices, integrated and enhanced, to move to think of some linked lines of various tints, in order to realize a multicolored fabric.

Richiamandoci il Caravaggio felice. L'apoteosi sua contemporanea e quella odierna Caravaggio: recalling the happy times. His apotheosis then and now Luciano Berti, Pierandrea Lussana, Graziella Magherini, 2004. New rereading which underlines some basic points of the reciprocal meeting between art and psychology and of the lines of the consensual walking between art historians and psychoanalysts. Contribution of art historian Luciano Berti and psychoanlysts Pierandrea Lussana and Graziella Magherini.

La Terrazza del mistero. La Allegoria Sacra di Giovanni Bellini Analisi storico-filologica e interpretazione psicoanalitica The terrace of mistery. The Holy allegory of Giovanni Bellini . An historical and filological analysis with a psychoanalytic interpretation. by Graziella Magherini, Antonio Paolucci, Anchise Tempestini The Allegoria Sacra of Giovanni Bellini is a painting full of fascination and mystery. Among the specialists the work is always escaping from any interpretative temptation. In this work there is a new psychoanalytical interpretation by Graziella Magherini, psychoanalyst. With an historical-philosophical analysis of Anchise Tempestini and a comment of Antonio Paolucci.

Florilegio 2003 Florilegio 2003 edited by Paolo Berruti. 2004 "One day we will speak about Biblioteca degli Uffizi as a new workshop, a place of important meeting in the history of cultural Interdisciplinarity at the end of XX century and the beginning of XXI. We will speak of academic specializations (art history, psychology, psychoanalysis), which are looking for themselves, meeting, linking and making short circuits. These researches at the frontiers, these borderline piratical incursions with the necessary spirit in autonomous scientific areas were in the Main Room of Biblioteca degli Uffizi" (preface of Antonio Paolucci). Papers of Paolo Berruti, Nadia Buonamici, Giovanni Cacciavillano, Stefano Calamandrei, Stefano De Rosa, Manfredo Fanfani, Stefano Ferrari, Lorenzo Lorenzi, Pierandrea Lussana, Graziella Magherini, Maurizio Masi, Marilena Mosco, Pina Ragionieri, Luca Trabucco, Giorgio Weber.

Artemisia Gentileschi nostra contemporanea Artemisia Gentileschi our contemporary Luciano Berti, Graziella Magherini, Monica Toraldo di Francia, 2002. 16 reproductions of woks by Artemisia Gentileschi Singular and fascinating person of art history, the only relevant painter of the first years of XVII Century. She lost her mother and was raised by her famous father Orazio who taught her how to paint. She lived in a man's environment where she was violated by an artist, friend of her father and her teacher. Artemisia Gentileschi is a particular example of a reality and a myth: a symbolic person of the woman's destiny in our history. The book is moving on these two lines: the art historian on his object of analysis, the psychoanalyst on the woman Artemisia, of her courage, of the violence, of her unquiet translated into nomadism, of her vitality: symbol of the woman's adventure in the history.