Il pungiglione di ferro

Abstract

We propose here a first circumscribed contribution on a research in which, thanks to a focused case study, we would like to evaluate the relationships between anthropology and art limited to those artists who consciously privileged anthropological themes in sculpture, painting and theater. We intend more in detail to focus on those who base their performative experimentation on an anthropological practice also acquired through university studies and experiences of ethnographic research, having therefore with the ethno-anthropological disciplines a clear contiguity, a sedimented and conscious relationship. We are interested in knowing which formal and conceptual topoi, which models and which values deriving from anthropological theory and practice can be translated into the field and in an artistic key, with which purposes and which results. Here we propose a first case, the metallic sculptures of Rosaria Iazzetta.

Keywords

• anthropology, art, performance, zooanthropology