May 1968 at the University of Architecture in Turin. The young Gruppo Strum and Studio 65 designers took an active part in student protests. These events fixed their project practice in a political dimension, engraved in the design/politics/Italianness triad.

Lost human face, absent-present image, lurking in the meanders of the memory. Like a pilgrim anxious to lead us along the best path, Miguel Almiron describes the works of artists and researchers obsessed with this lost image, which they bring back to life through innovative techniques and in the most diverse socio-cultural environments.

While cinemas have been closing across the African continent, film production has boomed and access to film has considerably increased for urban dwellers. How do people watch films today? Which films do they watch? Does this still count as cinema? The essays in this volume explore spectatorship in Africa.

Throughout history, French theatre showed great confidence in its supremacy over foreign theatres - whether ancient or contemporary. Such a certainty was reinforced by the success of Parisian plays all over Europe.

Salt is essential to life and to our very humanity. "Salt" regularly appears in recent books' titles. But what does this ingredient tell about us today? how can it be a ferment of artistic creation? This anthology of contemporary creations, visual as well as textual, offers some answers to these questions.

The stereoscopic illusion is, most of the time, associated with digital images. Such approach occludes its history: indeed, the stereoscopic illusion is the result of a century of research, that aim at wondering people by manipulating their senses thanks to the impression of « relief » stereoscopic images give them.

Brian Friel, born in 1929 in Northern Ireland, is the author of several radio plays and a dozen theatre plays, given in Belfast, Dublin, London, New York. He is one of the most famous contemporary English-language dramatists…

This volume analyses the works of the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, studies the founding tension between individual and collective history — written, re-written and infinitely open to the games of memory and language…

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is known as one of the best poets of his time. He is less known, especially in France, for his numerous theatre plays…