Su Luciano Anceschi

A study of the phenomenological poetics of Luciano Anceschi (1911-1995), especially his first book Autonomia ed eteronomia dell'arte (1936), how it valorized the critical contributions of the artists themselves (a pragmatic poetics), shifting the emphasis from Kantian aesthetics to the process of creation itself,. It explores the art "institutions" (similar to cultural topoi or memes) that arise and become dominant in late modern era, and which in turn trigger reactions by the various avant-gardes. Traces the emergence of the self-contained, autopoetic aspect of doing art, developing what might be called a process aesthetic.