1st Edition

Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretical Psychology of Art

Edited By Walter Coppola Copyright 2025
476 Pages 143 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

476 Pages 143 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretic Psychology of Art synthesizes contemporary research in the psychology of perception, cognition, language and hearing to reassess the Gestalt approach to studying the arts. Since Rudolf Arnheim’s death in 2007, the field has seen a resurgence, with scientists revisiting and reinventing previously articulated points of view. For the first time, this new work is... Read more

1. Introduction

Walter Coppola

 

2. Gestalt Theory and Art, from Wolfgang Köhler, to Rudolf Arnheim, to Today

Max Kobbert

 

3. Berlin, New York, Trieste – Laboratories of the Arts

Walter Coppola

 

4. History of Intersensoriality and Art

Fiorenza Toccafondi

 

5. History of Gestalt Psychology and Language

 Serena Cattaruzza and Savina Raynaud

 

6. History of Gestalt Psychology and Music

Riccardo Martinelli

 

7. Art, Phenomenology and Gestalt Theory

Luca Taddio

 

8. Gestalt Psychology, Aesthetics and Neuroscience

Carmelo Calì

 

9. Tertiary-expressive Qualities for Design

Michele Sinico

 

10. Dynamics and Expression in Visual Perception and Art: Emotions as Relational Structures

Giulia Parovel

 

11. Gestalt Perceptual Grouping and Crossmodal Art

Charles Spence and Nicola Di Stefano

 

12. Picture Perception

Ian Verstegen

 

13. Pictures and Color

Tiziano Agostini, Alessandra Galmonte and Alessandro Soranzo

 

14. Spatial Cognition and the Arts

Nele Sophie Pohl, Mira Schwarz, Kinan Markhlouf and Kai Hamburger

 

15. Poetry and Metaphor

Joseph Glicksohn and Chanita Goodblatt

 

16. Gestalt Psychology and (Literary) Narratives

Wolfgang Wildgen

 

17. Musical Consonance and Dissonance: A View from the Gestalt

Nicola di Stefano

 

18. Psychology of Music – Timbre

Sebastian Klotz

 

19. Gestalt Psychology and Film

Adriano d’Aloia

 

20. Gestalt Theory, Creativity and Problem Solving in Art

Ian Verstegen

 

21. Gestalt, Arnheim and Child Art Graphics

David Pariser

22. Perceptual Organization and Optical-Kinetic Art: Unraveling the Links between “Gruppo N” and the School of Psychology of Perception at the University of Padua

Guido Bartorelli, Andrea Bobbio, Giovanni Galfano and Massimo Grassi

Biography

Walter Coppola psychologist, PhD in Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience, member of the Psychoacoustics and Music Psychology Laboratory team at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy.