How Long to Read Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story

How Long Does it Take to Read Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 57 minutes to read Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story by Laura Messina-Argenton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story?

Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story by Laura Messina-Argenton is 413 pages long, and a total of 104,489 words.

This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 128% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 30 minutes to read Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story aloud.

What Reading Level is Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story?

Showing Time: Continuous Pictorial Narrative and the Adam and Eve Story is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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