Figure dell'artista/ Figures of the Artist

From Eloisa Morra:

"Art: a coven of freaks" (Sogni e Favole, 2019): Italian author Emanuele Trevi recently gave perfect expression to a widespread commonplace on the artist’s profile. Since Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz's Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist (1934) highlighted the topoi of the 'life as a professional artist', it was apparent that the artist's relevance in the modern imagination connects with the stratification of meanings and prejudices that over the centuries have been deposited onto his figure. Starting from this premise, specialists in the relation between literature and the visual arts Eloisa Morra and Giacomo Raccis edited a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal "Elephant & Castle" (University of Bergamo), titled Figure dell’artista: l’immagine dell’artista nelle forme della scrittura letteraria (Figures of the Artist: The Image of the Artist in the Forms of Literary Writing). It includes 15 essays exploring the forms of representation of the artist and self-fashioning in literary writing in the contemporary context. The full issue is open-access.