In this publication there are eighty interviews with as many contemporary artists in order to better comprehend the present day and its ties with history; there are also two original dialogues with Achille Bonito Oliva and Germano Celant. The publication presents the thoughts and words of Marina Abramovic, Carla Accardi, Giovanni Anselmo, Karel Appel, Nobuyoshi Araki, Balthus, Vanessa Beecroft, Ricardo Rodriguez Brey, Daniel Buren, Anthony Caro, Enrico Castellani, Maurizio Cattelan, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Tony Cragg, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, Jim Dine, Piero Dorazio, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Jan Fabre, Alberto Garutti, Piero Gilardi, Douglas Gordon, Michael Heizer, Gary Mili, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Allen Jones, Ilya Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Phillip King, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mariko Mori, Sebastian Matta, Mario Merz, Maurizio Mochetti, Takashi Murakami, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Shirin Neshat, Nunzio, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Armando Pizzinato, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mare Quinn, Carol Rama, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mimmo Rotella, Thomas Ruff, David Salle, Remo Salvadori, Salvo, Salvatore Scarpitta, Julian Schnabel, Toti Scialoja, Richard Serra, Ettore Spalletti, Antoni Tàpies, Grazia Toderi, Rosemarie Trockel, Giuseppe Uncini, Emilio Vedova, Luigi Veronesi, Francesco Vezzoli, Bill Viola, Massimo Vitali and Gilberto Zorio.