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The use and recycling of archival materials are crucial for writing the histories of music scenes and subcultures which have generally been oral and conveyed by DIY visual media documenting their activities. Conatemporary artists use these types of archives to explore how found footage strategies and forms can define wider social and cultural discourses. The paper deals with three video and digital works centered on punk/post-punk and EDM scenes and subcultures that are compared with a specific audiovisual form: Rock My Religion (Dan Graham, 1983-84) with the video-essay; Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey, 1999) with the videoclip; Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (Jeremy Deller, 2018) with the documentary. Punk/post-punk and EDM's representations reveal deep meanings on society concerning such themes as the collective rituality, the significance of the bodies, the relations with religion and other political, social, and cultural issues. The three works are analyzed following the three methodologies on the use of found footage outlined by William Wees (1993): compilation, collage, and appropriation. Then, the outcomes of such analyses are discussed with reference to Fredric Jameson's framework on Postmodern culture and the idea of «the loss of historicity» (1981, 1983, 19841991, 2005). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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On 13rd October 2016 the Chiostergi-Tuscher archive and library, originating from the heirs' house located in France (Saint-Cergues Les Voirons), was transferred to the Centro cooperativo mazziniano "Pensiero e Azione" in Senigallia. The paper reports about how this remarkable heritage of Chiostergi-Tuscher was retrieved and returned to Italy after thirty years. The collection includes correspondences, letters, diaries, documents, journals and papers, pictures, books, posters and other archival and bibliographic materials of great historical value to learn about the political, civic and cultural activities of Giuseppe Chiostergi (1899-1961), anti-fascist, member of the Italian Constituent Assembly and of Parliament, ambassador, pro-European and statesman, friend and correspondent to leading Italian and European personalities in the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows the results of an archive research, developed in parallel with the recent restoration of the Valentino Castle’s chapel in Torino, with the goal of deepening the knowledge of this part of the Savoy’s residence. The study led to identify in Maria Giovanna Battista di Savoia-Nemours the commissioner of the stucco and fresco decorations that ornate the chapel as well as to a better knowledge both on the second Madama Reale and on the palace between the Sixth and Seventeenth centuries. Through the comparison of data emerging from documents with those from style and restoration works, it was possible to formulate a hypothesis on the craftsmen behind the stucco decoration, that can be attributed to Pietro Somasso’s team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we publish 48 letters of M.N. Murav’ev to S.M. and F.N. Lunin. They were written in 1789. These texts are unique materials for the reconstruction of the writer’s biography. Every week Murav’ev wrote to his sister and her husband about political news, culture, literature and family affairs.