¿Cuál siglo xx? Las reflexiones fenomenológicas de Giovanni Piana sobre el arte del siglo xx

The scope and intensity of Giovanni Piana's
philosophical reflections on the arts, and especially
on the vicissitudes of twentieth-century art in the
the whole of his theoretical production is not limited to
the project of delineating a philosophy of music that
has effectively become, since the 1990s, the centre
of his theoretical interests. The art of the 20th
century and its avant-gardes represented for Piana an
argument full of suggestion and interest. The aim of
the paper is to indicate the reason why in the course
of his studies, Piana feels a growing need to discuss
contemporary art. Reflecting on twentieth-century
art not only means shedding light on the expressive
values of the elemental forms of experience, but for
Piana, it also meant questioning the nexus that joins
the material structure of sound and, in general, of the
materials of the experience with the forms in which
they are coded linguistically.