What's on this week in Florence: HI WOMAN! The News of the Future, Harlem Gospel Choir, Lucia Festival, Christmas markets, Charity Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, Chiesa di Ognissanti
What's on this month in Florence: Benozzo Gozzoli and the Chapel of the Magi and Il Fiorentino: The Grand Diamond of Tuscany, 21st River to River Florence Indian Film Festival, Arezzo Città del Natale, Christmas Concerts, Ferris wheel and Florence on Ice Village, HI WOMAN! The News of the Future, Lucia Festival, Galileo Chini and European Symbolism, Christmas markets, Cinema Odeon, Community Events
Art by Matt Chase.
The law of imitative representation, aka mimesis, reigned supreme in Western art for so long that its resistors sometimes found
it hard to stop battling it, even when and where it had lost its grip. Consider, for example, some responses to so-called concrete poetry on the part of advocates of so-called conceptual art. The writer and critic Lucy Lippard differentiates between concrete poetry’s naive strategies of linguistic resemblance “where the words are made to look like something, an image” and conceptualism’s more sophisticated liberty “where the words are used only to
avoid looking like something, where it doesn’t make any difference how the words look on the page or anything.”