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Starting from the case study of Futurism, the paper focuses on the controversial relationship between Croce and the contemporary avant-garde art. Croce's "passatism" is actually his historicism, a perspective from which futurists seem to be affected by a severe illness: anti-historicism. The paper analyses this ideological opposition (historicism/anti-historicism; thought and action/ activism; futurism/passatism; unique/typical; bourgeois and liberal world/revolution and youth), touching upon its political implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper, I shall argue about the relationship among creativity, empathy, and recognition. To this aim, I will provide with an analysis of two contemporary work of art as case studies: the interactive portrait This Is Not Private by Alberto Daniele (2016) and the project Material Speculation: ISIS (2015-2016) by Morehshin Allahyari (2016). Through a phenomenological framework, my contention is to show how the engagement between the artist and the user is crucial to develop the meaning of the work of art itself, determining a creative process in which they both are involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]