Art and Perception. Towards a Visual Science of Art, Part 1

ISBN-13: 9789004166295 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 286 str.

Baingio Pinna

Opis

This volume is a collection of articles which explore the relations between modern and classical visual art on the one hand and what is currently known or believed about visual perception, visual exploration, the eye, and the visual brain. The book includes speculative as well as firmly-grounded theories and approaches. Articles have been chosen for their scholarly value, their scientific approach as far as possible, and their intrinsic interest.

Spis treści

Introduction
Art as a scientific object: toward a visual science of art
B. Pinna

Some principles of spatial organization in art
C. W. Tyler

The origins of entasis: illusion, aesthetics or engineering?
P. Thompson, G. Papadopoulou and E. Vassiliou

Brain activity accompanying perception of implied motion in abstract paintings
C.-Y. Kim and R. Blake

Designing visually rich, nearly random textures
J. Ninio

Piranesi and the infinite prisons
S. Roncato

Gender's effect on the hemispheric laterality of Rembrandt's portraits
J. A. Schirillo

Artful visions
N. J. Wade

Visual interest in pictorial art during an aesthetic experience
P. Locher, E. A. Krupinski, C. Mello-Thoms and C. F. Nodine

Art pieces that 'move' in our minds- an explanation of illusory motion based on depth reversal
T. V. Papathomas

A universal model of esthetic perception based on the sensory coding of natural stimuli
C. Redies

Portraits and perception: configural information in creating and recognizing face images
B. J. Balas and P. Sinha

Fractal-like image statistics in visual art: similarity to natural scenes
C. Redies, J. Hasenstein and J. Denzler

Statistical regularities of art images and natural scenes: spectra, sparseness and nonlinearities
D. J. Graham and D. J. Field

Examining art: dissociating pattern and perceptual influences on oculomotor behaviour
B. W. Tatler, N. J. Wade and K. Kaulard

The science and craft of autostereograms
J. Ninio

Index

Color plates I-XVI

O autorze

Baingio Pinna , Ph.D. (1993) in Experimental Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, is Professor of Psychology and Perceptual Psychology at University of Sassari, Italy. He has published extensively on visual psychophysics and discovered several new visual illusions (Revolving Wheels, Watercolor, Discoloration, Flashing Color Contrast, etc.).