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"""Widely known and highly respected as a graphic artist and psychological researcher, Massironi is very well qualified to write a book on the psychology of graphic images....including extensive indexes and references, this book is recommended for readers at all levels."" —CHOICE ""Too often psychological discussions of visual images are wooden and the mere application of principles of experimental psychology to visual material. The same cannot be said of Manfredo Massironi's The Psychology of Graphic Images, which marvels at the richness and complexity of graphic signs and the ways they create meaning."" —Leonardo Digital Reviews ""Too often, psychological discussions of visual images are wooden, the mere application of principles of experimental psychology to visual material. The same cannot be said of Manfredo Massironi's The Psychology of Graphic Images, which marvels at the richness and complexity of graphic signs and the ways they create meaning. Massironi writes in the best tradition of the European intellectual....His discussion is both rigorous, often making fundamental contributions to aspects of picture perception, and humane, as he preserves the greatness of what he is examining."" —International Society for the Arts, Sciences, & Technology ""This is a pioneering and thoughtful treatment....It never fails to be insightful and is at times quite brilliant. From the wealth of the illustrations and the rigor of the writing one cannot fail to see that this work was written by a scholar/artist who is equally at home in perception research and artistic creation."" —Michael Kubovy University of Virginia"

Widely known and highly respected as a graphic artist and psychological researcher, Massironi is very well qualified to write a book on the psychology of graphic images....including extensive indexes and references, this book is recommended for readers at all levels. -CHOICE Too often psychological discussions of visual images are wooden and the mere application of principles of experimental psychology to visual material. The same cannot be said of Manfredo Massironi's The Psychology of Graphic Images, which marvels at the richness and complexity of graphic signs and the ways they create meaning. -Leonardo Digital Reviews Too often, psychological discussions of visual images are wooden, the mere application of principles of experimental psychology to visual material. The same cannot be said of Manfredo Massironi's The Psychology of Graphic Images, which marvels at the richness and complexity of graphic signs and the ways they create meaning. Massironi writes in the best tradition of the European intellectual....His discussion is both rigorous, often making fundamental contributions to aspects of picture perception, and humane, as he preserves the greatness of what he is examining. -International Society for the Arts, Sciences, & Technology This is a pioneering and thoughtful treatment....It never fails to be insightful and is at times quite brilliant. From the wealth of the illustrations and the rigor of the writing one cannot fail to see that this work was written by a scholar/artist who is equally at home in perception research and artistic creation. -Michael Kubovy University of Virginia

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Manfredo Massironi, Translated by N Bruno

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