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It is with great pleasure and pride that I would like to announce a piece of news that concerns me – namely the publication of a book. The book was edited by two colleagues…

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A new book: Cognitive Iconology. When and How Psychology Explains Images by Ian Verstegen (author's home page: https://sites.google.com/site/ianverstegen/ ) Cognitive Iconology is an attempt to provide a sustainable explanatory practice for psychology of art.…

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Additions made after 23^rd May 2015

A study designed by Alberto Argenton
and dedicated to his memory

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28 Mar 2023

Springer has just published the book "Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story. In Memory of Alberto Argenton", written by Laura Messina Argenton, Tiziano Agostini, Tamara Prest and Ian Verstegen. This…

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Artworks by Alberto Argenton
in the exhibition “L'occhio in gioco”

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23 Oct 2022

The exhibition “L’occhio in gioco” (Trick of the Eye), open until 26 February 2023 in the Palazzo Monte di Pietà, Padua, is curated, in its first, historical part of a historical nature, by Luca Massimo…

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An essay on Alberto Argenton in a book
accompanying the exhibition “L’occhio in gioco”

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23 Oct 2022

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Open until 26 February 2023 in the Palazzo Monte di Pietà in Padua, the exhibition “L’occhio in gioco” (Trick of the Eye) explores the boundaries between art and science, documenting them with important artistic works…

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A Dantesque excursion with Alberto Argenton as guide

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02 May 2022

In 2021, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the Trieste members of the GTA (Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications) offered a series of online, monthly “excursions”, held in…

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Arte e espressione is now available to English-speaking readers as Art and Expression

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20 Jun 2019

Arte e espressione, studi e ricerche di psicologia dell’arte, published by Alberto Argenton in 2008, for the types of the publisher Il Poligrafo, was translated into English and published by the publisher Routledge, in 2019,…

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Arnheim, Gestalt and Media:
A new book by Ian Verstegen

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14 May 2019

Ian Verstegen published a new book, which further deepen the knowledge of the media theory developed by Arnheim.

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Echoes from VSAC 2018

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30 Sep 2018

VSAC 2018 (The Visual Science of Art Conference) was held in Trieste from 24 to 26 August, organizedby Rossana Actis-Grosso and Daniele Zavagno, as a satellite conference of ECVP 2018 (European Conference on Visual Perception),…

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Symposium on Art and Expression in memory of
Alberto Argenton at VSAC 2018, 24 August

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18 Aug 2018

VSAC 2018 - The Visual Science of Art Conference - dedicates a Symposium in memory of Alberto Argenton, entitled Art and Expression. The name of the symposium is the same as a book written by…

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At VSAC 2018, research on pictorial continuous narrative, designed by Alberto Argenton

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18 Aug 2018

Mariotto Albertinelli, Creation and Fall of Man, 1513 - 1514. Conservato presso Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London

Pictorial continuous narratives: Perceptual-representational strategies is the title of the research by Ian Verstegen, Tamara Prest, Laura Messina Argenton, and Alberto Argenton (†) that will be presented at the symposium Representation of events and dynamic…

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