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Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story
How does a visual artist manage to narrate a story, which has a sequential and therefore temporal progression, using a static medium consisting solely of spatial sign elements and, what is more, in a single image? This is the question on which this work is based, posed by its designer, Alberto Argenton, to whose memory it is dedicated. The first explanation usually given by scholars in the field is that the artist solves the problem by depicting the same character in a number of scenes, thus giving indirect evidence of events taking place at different times. This book shows that artists, in addition to the repetition of characters, devise other spatial perceptual-representational strategies for organising the episodes that constitute a story and, therefore, showing time. Resorting to the psychology of art of a Gestalt matrix, the book offers researchers, graduates, advanced undergraduates, and professionals a description of a large continuous pictorial narrative repertoire (1000 works) and an in-depth analysis of the perceptual-representational strategies employed by artists from the 6th to the 17th century in a group of 100 works narrating the story of Adam and Eve.
Art and Expression
Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production. Art and Expression examines the cognitive processes involved in artistic production, aesthetic reception, understanding and enjoyment. Using a phenomenological theoretical and methodological framework, developed by Rudolf Arnheim and other important scholars interested in expressive media, Alberto Argenton considers a wide range of artistic works, which span the whole arc of the history of western graphic and pictorial art. Argenton analyses the representational strategies of a dynamic and expressive charac...
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Poesia e ispirazione
L'ispirazione poetica è un mito antico. Ma quali sono davvero i processi mentali che presiedono alla nascita di una poesia? L'autore indaga l'enigma dell'ispirazione, collegando il discorso storico-letterario sull'arte poetica alle nuove esplorazioni della mente condotte dalla linguistica e dalle scienze cognitive. Il discorso sull'ispirazione torna a essere un ragionamento sulle connessioni tra linguaggio e attività psichica. La poesia diventa una modificazione della prospettiva cognitiva: uno scarto del pensiero, necessario e urgente in quanto capace di rendere concepibile un'alternativa al reale. La poesia è forse la forma linguistica più vicina al funzionamento del cervello, in quanto tende ad aderire ai suoi processi biologici, e a riprodurne la complessità. Il pensiero poetico scopre finalmente che il proprio valore conoscitivo non si contrappone alla scienza, ma ne allarga i confini.
