Inner vision an exploration of art and the brain Semir Zeki
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TextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1999Description: x,224p. ill. (chiefly col.) 24cmISBN: - 0198505191
- 700.105 ZEK
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| 700.105 DAN Artists as inventors : inventors as artists / | 700.105 WAL Art in the age of mass media / | 700.105 WAL Art in the age of mass media / | 700.105 ZEK Inner vision an exploration of art and the brain Semir Zeki | 700.108 MOM Design and violence / | 700.12 MEL Seams art as a philosophical context essays by Stephen Melville edited and introduced by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe | 700.285 LOP A philosophy of computer art / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The work of the artist and the science of vision may seem distantly related as subjects. However, When Leonardo da Vinci wrote that, of all the colours, the most pleasing are the ones which constitute opponents, he was uttering a physical truth about the visual brain. Inner Vision is the first attempt to relate the science of vision to art. 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 the neuroanatomy of the visual cortex. Combining beautiful illustrations, rich insights, and entertaining prose, Inner Vision will be enthralling for scientists and artists alike. "Dr Zeki is one of the three founders of modern visual science. He has undertaken an ambitious project and has in my opinion succeeded admirably. The book is very readable and full of fascinating insights. It will appeal to a very wide audience including artists, neurologists, psychologists, and philosophers." V Ramachandran, University of California
Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 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