Dovegrave; nato Marco Polo? La passione e la competenza che ne "Il Milione" Marco Polo dimostra per la caccia e per lrsquo;uccellagione; porterebbe a escludere che sia nato in laguna. Il fatto che in Carnia; sin dal Medioevo; fosse diffuso il cognome Polo; porta a supporre che da qui; legato al commercio del legname; questo cognome sia sceso fino a Venezia. Su questi presupposti storici il romanzo riproduce lrsquo;autobiografia di un Luigi Polo vissuto tra il 1210 e il 1300; che sarebbe stato il nonno di Marco. Al nonno; di ritorno dallrsquo;Asia; Marco anticipa i contenuti de "Il Milione"; ma per una serie di casualitagrave; il nonno raccoglie anche il racconto dei precursori di Marco; Giovanni da Pian del Carpine e Guglielmo di Robruck. Per questo; la sua autobiografia diventa il compendio del racconto della scoperta dellrsquo;Asia nel Medioevo; in stridente contrasto con la storia del Friuli del tempo. La vita di Marco diventa metafora della vita drsquo;un giovane drsquo;oggi: un "glocale" del duemila; che srsquo;apre alla globalizzazione; mantenendosi ancorato al valore delle proprie radici.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Long-winded; repetitiveBy smDoris Salcedo is a very interesting Colombian artist and really deserves an intelligent monograph on her work and how it bears witness to political violence. Unfortunately; this is not it. The book by Mieke Bal is not without insight; the chapter headings suggest some very interesting issues about the artists work: Acts of memory; metaphor; anthropomorphism. The style of writing; however; is incredibly long-winded and often very repetitive. Bal seems to circle round the work; making much of approaches and ideas she is not going to follow or analyse; but there is little by way of solid explication of her method. When she does engage directly with Salcedos art the analysis is laboured but ultimately fairly pedestrian.Much of the book is trying to explain Salcedos approach to political art; but this issue remains vague and ill-defined. At one point in the book (p; 179); Bal finally indicates that the closest she will get to articulating why the work is political is that it allows one to respond in whatever way one feels is appropriate. This is hardly ground-breaking stuff. The Phaidon book on the artist and the catalogue Unland offer better scholarly interpretations of the artists work.1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Haunting review of difficult workBy Carolin K. ShiningThe authors review; begun at the J. Paul Getty research center; is a mysterious and elegiac work. As an author; Bal does not discuss the-Columbian born Doris Salcedos entire body of work; but instead dissects particular pieces and the themes they bring into a discussion of emptiness; death and mourning.In the section on "Untitled Furniture (Armoire)"; the use of concrete filling a glass armoire raises many rhetorical questions on death; existence who exactly is buried in the spaces created inside and outside of the concrete. Mixing personal experiences with the artists work and incorporating an understanding of the artists own traumatic past; this book is a jumping-off point into the study of modern art; loss and grief. While not an encyclopedia; there is plenty of grist to chew on; and I recommend this book for anyone seeking to further their study of the "why" and "what" of the politics of memory.
