The Judgement of the Eye : the Metamorphoses of Geometry - One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Jürgen
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I: Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual Information
  • Short Summary of the Main Ideas; What Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer's Disease; What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like?; The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology and Its Limitations; My Question: How Do Forms Convey Content? Are There Visual Categories of Expression?; The Rosette; Contraction and Expansion; The Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory
  • Identification Memory; The "Orbits" and Their Application; The Start of Ornamentation All Over the World and At All Times; Actual Enlargement and Reduction; Rotated Surfaces
  • PART II: Form and Movement; The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art; The Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece; Movement Schemata; And Once Again the Visual Memory; So-called Naturalism
  • Summing up; Bibliography
  • Index
  • Figures.