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	<title>Alberto Argenton &#187; Psychology of art</title>
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	<description>La psicologia e le arti hanno questo in comune: entrambe coprono l&#039;intero ambito della mente umana (Rudolf Arnheim)</description>
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		<title>Alberto Argenton (2015), Is Arnheim just a formalist?, Gestalt Theory, 37(3), 219-234.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 03:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Messina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton (2015), Is Arnheim just a formalist?, Gestalt Theory, 37(3), 219-234.
Summary
The claim often made against Arnheim that he is a formalist is a ridiculous criticism to make, as I will try to prove in the course of this article, after mentioning some of the theoretical assumptions that Arnheim makes. Furthermore, in my opinion, such a criticism is a symptom of an underlying misunderstanding which, in various guises, is apparent in the works of numerous scholars, when they refer to, analyse, or evaluate the constituent constructs (and some of them in particular) of Arnheim’s theory.

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		<title>Alberto Argenton (2019), Art and Expression:  Studies in the Psychology of Art,  Edited by Ian Verstegen, Routledge, London.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Messina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton (2019), Art and Expression: Studies in the Psychology ofArt, Edited by Ian Verstegen, Routledge, London.
From the book:
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.]]></description>
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		<title>Rudolf Arnheim&#8217;s book review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review of Arte e cognizione]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rudolf Arnheim's book review of Arte e cognizione, by Alberto Argenton (1997), The British Journal of Aesthetics, 37, 1, 87-88

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		<title>Restoration and the psychology of art by Alberto Argenton &amp; Giuseppe Basile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton and Giuseppe Basile (2003), Restoration and the Psychology of Art: An Occasion to Test out Cesare Brandi’s “theory of Restoration”, in G. Basile (ed.), Restoration of Scrovegni Chapel. Surveys, project, results, Skira,&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
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		<title>Aesthetic cognition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton (2004), Aesthetic cognition. A tribute to Rudolf Arnheim, Gestalt Theory, 2, 128-133.
Summary
This paper was written with the ideal purpose of carrying on in the tradition of Rudolf ARNHEIM's seminal research and, more generally, in the tradition of Gestalt theory. It argues that the aesthetic criterion (the bipolar dimension of "beautiful/ugly"), through which we evaluate any object or event in the phenomenal world, is a species-specific criterion, which is based on perceptual functioning and orients, drives, and regulates cognition. The author advances this thesis as a contribution to the theme of the relationship between perception and thought, affirm¬ing how important it is to study the artistic phenomenon if we are ever to grasp the functioning of the human mind in its entirety.
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		<title>Ian Verstegen&#8217;s book review of Arte e espressione</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below you can find Ian Verstegen&#8217;s book review of Arte e espressione. Studi e ricerche di psicologia dell&#8217;arte, by Alberto Argenton, in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 68 (2010): 196-197. Ian Verstegen&#8217;s book review]]></description>
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		<title>Convergences between conservation, restoration and psychology of art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton (2010), Convergences between conservation, restoration and psychology of art, in P. Iazurlo, F. Valentini (eds.) Conservation of contemporary art: Themes and issues. A didactic experience, Il Prato, Padova,  31-40. Essentially, in this&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
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		<title>The hand, touch and vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Argenton (2012), The hand, touch and vision, in A. Pluchinotta (ed.), Just the hand in modern and contemporary plastic art, Exhibition catalogue, Padova, Piano Nobile – Caffè Pedrocchi, 22 September – 14 October 2012, Bortolazzi-Stei, San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR), 44-50.
The hand, together with the arm of which it is the extremity, is our principal executive organ. It is what characterizes us as homo faber and as the species homo sapiens sapiens, for it is with the hand that we have been and are able not only to modify, on the whole to our advantage, the environment in which we live, but also to create, construct, make a myriad of artifacts that constitute our cultural material. The hand seems to be one of the primary organs through which the body – and the mind – interact cognitively with the surrounding world and help shape and develop our knowledge of the world. ]]></description>
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