La psicologia e le arti hanno questo in comune: entrambe coprono l'intero ambito della mente umana (Rudolf Arnheim)
We are honored to announce that on September 25, 2024, during the opening ceremony of the 23rd GTA Conference https://www.gtaconference2024.com/awards, held in the Sacrestia del Bramante in Santa Maria delle Grazie a Milano, the prestigious Wolfgang Metzger International Award was conferred on the volume
Organized in collaboration with the University of Milan Bicocca, on the occasion of the 23rd GTA (Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications) Conference, the exhibition Art and Perception in the visual works of Alberto Argenton, Gaetano Kanizsa, Manfredo Massironi and in the music of Paolo Bozzi is housed in the spaces of the FrancoAngeli
The book Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story. In Memory of Alberto Argenton is the winner of the 2024 edition of the prestigious Wolfgang Metzger International Prize. The prize named after Wolfgang Metzger, a student of Max Wertheimer and one of the leading members of the second generation of the Berlin Gestalt School,
Laura Messina-Argenton, Tiziano Agostini, Tamara Prest, and Ian Verstegen – the authors of the book “Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story. In Memory of Alberto Argenton” – presented a poster with the same title….
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 book develops a study designed by Alberto Argenton to investigate the perceptual-representational strategies used by artists
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 Barbero and, in its second part, focused on the Paduan reality, by Guido Bartorelli, Giovanni Galfano, Andrea Bobbio and Massimo Grassi.
The exhibition is organised by themes and documents different perceptual-representational devices used by the artists in their pictorial research, relating them to scientific research on vision
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 and scientific studies on vision.
The exhibition is accompanied by two volumes, which bear the same title and which, analogously to the two parts of the exhibition, are dedicated, one, to “Perception, impressions and illusions in art”, curated by L. M. Barbero, and the other
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 Italian, on the “question of the language” in its various aspects: linguistic, psychological, philosophical and historic-cultural. The tenth excursion was led by Laura Messina-Argenton, Senior Scholar of the University of Padua, on the topic: “The versifying of Dante and its ‘perceptual meaning’ (in the terms of Alberto Argenton)”.
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.
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, under the title Art and Expression: Studies in the Psychology of Art. The English edition was edited by Ian Verstegen