Monografia ancora? Casi di studio. Intrecci con la ricerca, l’editoria e il mercato dell'arte, la didattica

Abstract

We can not hide that the traditional monograph about an artist with his catalouge seems at times like an editorial product,  with a little retro taste; certainly it's useful to the market of art and pubblishing that finds in the catalouge combining the biograph and the essay, a convenient tool for an evaluative check, a support for an economic evaluation about artists, a delightful thing shown in the living room. Increasly the historical and artistic research is receptive to a space-time expanded approach and to a methodological converging of various critacal interpretations. Is the visual limit imposing by the analysis about an individual exponent still compatible with the research of historical truth? Particularly when the monograph is related to an exhibition being its catalouge, the limits of the mongraph are usally evident. This is not the case of  the exhibition named Dentro Caravaggio in Milano's Palazzo Reale, curated by Rossella Vodret with an illustrious scientific Comittee chaired by Keith Christiansen.