The courage to be alone. Re-inventing of narratives in Contemporary Art

The essays gathered in this book are the result of a histori-cal- anthropological observation: after the crisis in narra-tion, carefully analyzed in the past by François Lyotard, we confront ourselves today with the tendency, in contem-porary artistic creation characterized by expression, of discourse re-invention efforts. In fact, artists concentrate in their work the real experience of their own personal histo-ry, contextualizing it in historical, cultural and social situa-tions.
These new forms of discourse deal with personal paradigms as if they were public, thus overcoming the limits between public and private, and search for the hypersensitive and suggestive elements that evoke the models of different human situations and conditions. All the examples presented in this book are the product of an anthropological outlook on man and raise the reader's awareness of the micro-community experiences that are nothing but the reflection of micro-utopias born from the absence of the great teleological utopias.