Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story : In Memory of Alberto Argenton

Laura Messina-Argenton

ISBN 10: 3031136616 / ISBN 13: 9783031136610

Editore: Springer International Publishing, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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• Titolo: Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story : In Memory of Alberto Argenton
• Editore: Springer International Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3031136616
• ISBN 13: 9783031136610
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 27 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 27 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 869 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Dr. Laura ?Messina Argenton, Senior Scholar, University of Padua, Padua, Italy