Ebook Art in the Age of Media Profiles and Trends of the Italian Art Scene

What does it mean creating art, being artists today? What urges choosing art as a life profession? This research intends to provide a few initial answers to these simple, yet unexplored questions. Based on a sample formed by the artists participating in the Terna Prize for contemporary art, highly experimental for the method used, unique in its kind, perhaps even pioneerist, the research headed by Francesco Casetti intends to shed light on the hidden side of contemporary art. The background of the research is based on the decisive trends in today’s communication: the radical transformation of intellectual activity, the profound renewal and transformation of languages and expressive tools, the growing and increasingly pervasive media culture.