The Artful Eye

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-19-852195-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1310 g

In the words of Richard Gregory `Here are to be found novel links to art and science, and to mind and brain. These many themes are captured to weave a tapestry of the intelligent brain behind the artful eye.'

This fascinating volume presents the thoughts of scientists and artists working on many aspects of visual perception, ranging from the physiology of the brain, development of sight in infants, and the significance of faces, to the physics of images and the mathematics of impossible objects. There are essays on perspective, especially of Vermeer's use of the camera oscura, alongside an examination of the art of the forger, portraits of artists and scientists, and a personal statement by the late sculptress, Dame Elisabeth Frink.

Complete with over 200 illustrations, including colour plates by Hockney, Magritte, Vermeer, and others, this is a an enlightening mixture of biology and aesthetics which will appeal to psychologists, vision scientists, and all those interested in the effect of the visual arts on the eye and brain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregory, Richard L.

Harris, John

Heard, Priscilla

Rose, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Into the Brain

- Introduction

- 1: R. Gregory: Black boxes of artful vision

- 2: D. Rose: A portrait of the brain

- 3: D. Hubel and M. Livingstone: Through the eyes of monkeys and men

- 4: R. Latto: The brain of the beholder

- 5: D. Perrett et al: When is a face not a face?

- 6: G. Humphreys: When paying attention is too costly

- Part II: Starting to see

- Introduction

- 7: J. Atkinson: Through the eyes of an infant

- 8: C. Trevarthen: Mother and baby - seeing eye to eye

- Part III: Behind the eyes

- Introduction

- 9: O. Braddick: The many faces of motion perception

- 10: S. Anstis and V.S. Ramachandran: At the edge of movement

- 11: V.S. Ramachandran: 2-D or not 2-D - that is the question

- 12: V. Walsh and K. Kulikowski: Seeing colour

- Part IV: Physic

- Introduction

- 13: J. Kulikowski and I. Murray: Chemical dreams

- 14: A. Sillito: Chemical soup

- Part V: Physics

- Introduction

- 15: M. Berry: Natural focussing

- 16: R. Penrose: Mathematics of the impossible

- Part VI: Artistry

- Introduction

- 17: A. Hayes and J. Ross: Lines of sight

- 18: P. Steadman: In the studio of Vermeer

- 19: D. Phillips: How do forgers deceive art critics?

- 20: N. Wade: Portraits of artists and scientists

Über Autor(innen)

Professor R. L Gregory, who edited The Oxford Companion to the Mind (OUP, 1987), is at the Department of Psycology, Bristol University. Dr J. Harris and Dr P. Heard are both at that same establishment, while Dr D. Rose is at the Department of Psychology, Surrey University.