Focusing on the work of artist Alberto Savinio, the younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Alessandro Landini’s The Absent Look. Art and Autism – the Savinio Case presents interesting findings on the relationship between autism and “sight.”  The author*, chair of composition at Polo Musica and Scienze Cognitive, Conservatorio "G. Nicolini" in Piacenza, believes that the results he achieved through the study of Savinio transcend the artist's case and the field of art criticism to open fresh perspective on the therapeutical use of art for Asperger’s Syndrome – the mild form of autism that apparently affected Savinio, as well as Einstein and Glenn Gould among others.

Courtesy of the author, you can read the index, introduction, and first chapter of the book Lo sguardo assente. Arte e autismo: il caso Savinio, Franco Angeli, Milano 2009.