L’eternauta, il “mano” e la caffettiera. Elementi di estetica poco extra e molto terrestre

Abstract

In one of the most unforgettable moments of El Eternauta, the alien ”mano” thinks about the artistic meaning of a flip coffee pot. Being inside the fiction, the alien‘s ideas are put in comparison with Antonio Banfi’s concept of widespread artisticity, with Georg Simmel’s, Ernst Bloch’s, and Theodor W. Adorno’s thought on the vase, and with Donald Norman’s design theory.