CHAPTER 4
Defining Animation*
“ART IS EVERYTHING THAT Mankind calls art”, wrote Dino Formaggio in the introduction of L’arte come idea e come esperienza,1 “this is not – as some might think – a simple opening line, but rather, it might possibly be the only acceptable and verifiable definition of the concept of art”. I will begin by anticipating the conclusions of this brief study to suggest that the definition of animation2 be formulated by paraphrasing the approach of the Milanese academic, and maybe with an ulterior accent on the time element to which he dedicated the paragraphs following this affirmation. (He analysed visual art thoroughly and therefore it is understood that, if one wants to categorise, animation is a subfamily ...
