Inner vision : an exploration of art and the brain / Semir Zeki.

Author
Zeki, Semir [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999.
Description
x, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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    "Inner Vision is the first attempt to relate art to the way in which the visual brain functions. Using a range of examples from artists including Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Magritte, Malevich, and Picasso, Semir Zeki takes the reader on an aesthetic tour of the brain. He describes in compelling detail how different areas of the brain respond to elements of the visual arts such as colour, form, line, and motion, and argues that our experience of art relates strongly to how the brain works."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Part I: A function of the brain and of art
    • 1. The brain's quest for essentials
    • 2. Art's quest for essentials
    • 3. The myth of the "seeing eye"
    • 4. A neurobiological appraisal of Vermeer and Michaelangelo
    • 5. The neurology of the Platonic Ideal
    • 6. The Cubist search for essentials
    • 7. The modularity of vision
    • 8. Seeing and understanding
    • 9. The modularity of visual aesthetics
    • 10. The pathology of the Platonic Ideal and the Hegelian concept
    • Part II: The art of the receptive field
    • 11. The receptive field
    • 12. Mondrian, Malevich, and the neurophysiology of oriented lines
    • 13. Mondrian, Ben Nichoson, Malevich, and the neurophysiology of squares and rectangles
    • 14. Perceptual problems created by the receptive fields
    • 15. The neurophysiology of the Metamalevich and the Metakandinsky
    • 16. Kinetic art
    • Part III: A neurological examination of some art forms
    • 17. Face imperception or a portrait of prosopagnosia
    • 18. The physiology of colour vision
    • 19. The fauvist brain
    • 20. The neurology of abstract and representational art
    • 21. Monet's brain.
    ISBN
    • 0198505191 ((hardcover))
    • 9780198505198 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    00699154
    OCLC
    42004757
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