Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretical Psychology of Art

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.

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.

1. Introduction 2. Gestalt Theory and Art, from Wolfgang Köhler, to Rudolf Arnheim, to Today 3. Berlin, New York, Trieste - Laboratories of the Arts 4. History of Intersensoriality and Art 5. History of Gestalt Psychology and Language 6. History of Gestalt Psychology and Music 7. Art, Phenomenology and Gestalt Theory 8. Gestalt Psychology, Aesthetics and Neuroscience 9. Tertiary Expressive Qualities for Design 10. Dynamics and Expression in Visual Perception and Art: Emotions as Relational Structures 11. Gestalt Perceptual Grouping and Crossmodal Art 12. Picture Perception 13. Pictures and Color 14. Spatial Cognition and the Arts 15. Poetry and Metaphor 16. Gestalt Psychology and (Literary) Narratives 17. Musical Consonance and Dissonance: A View From the Gestalt 18. Psychology of Music - Timbre 19. Gestalt Psychology and Film 20. Gestalt Theory, Creativity and Problem Solving in Art 21. Gestalt, Arnheim and Child Art Graphics 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