Overview
- First application of a Gestalt-oriented approach to study continuous pictorial narrative
- Exhaustive case study of a single iconography - the Creation of Adam and Eve
- Toolkit for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of complex visual narratives
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reference Materials of the Study
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story
Book Subtitle: In Memory of Alberto Argenton
Authors: Laura Messina-Argenton, Tiziano Agostini, Tamara Prest, Ian F. Verstegen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13662-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13661-0Published: 15 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13664-1Published: 15 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13662-7Published: 14 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 395
Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations, 106 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, general, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Arts, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind