Perception and pictorial representation / edited by Calvin F. Nodine, Dennis F. Fisher ; foreword by Rudolf Arnheim.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Praeger, 1979.
Description
xxxiii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    This volume contains the edited proceedings of the first interdisciplinary symposium on pictorial processing, entitled 'What is a painting?', held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in April 1978, which brought together artists, psychologists and philosophers to exchange ideas about pictorial representation. The contributors examine the roles of perception and cognition in pictorial processing and present their ideas on theoretical issues raised by constructivists, gestaltists and perspectivists. They also discuss contrasting notions about perspective, phantom contours, attached and cast shadows, motion, the nature of abstraction, and space in pictures. The final section of the book treats applied aspects of picture processing, art appreciation and the development of the creative process.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographies and indexes.
    Creation/​Production credits
    "Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Pictorial Processing, entitled "What is a painting?" sponsored by the U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory which was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on April 17-19, 1978"--Preface.
    Contents
    • What is a painting?
    • The role of perception
    • The role of cognition
    • Understanding paintings
    ISBN
    • 0030498163
    • 9780030498169
    • 0275904024
    • 9780275904029
    LCCN
    79004613
    OCLC
    4776036
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