George Mather (University of Lincoln)

The Psychology of Visual Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences.

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A new textbook that takes an interdisciplinary approach to visual art, connecting art history, computational vision, evolution, neurology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and psychophysics. It presents ideas and theories clearly and accessibly to students encountering the psychology of art for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780521184793
• ISBN-10: 0521184797
• Artikelnr.: 36773212

Autorenporträt

George Mather is Professor of Vision Science in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln. He has over twenty-five years of experience in teaching courses on human visual perception and the psychology of visual art to undergraduate and postgraduate students and is the author of Essentials of Sensation and Perception (2011), Foundations of Sensation and Perception (2009) and The Motion After-Effect: A Modern Perspective (1998, co-edited with Stuart Anstis and Frans Verstraten).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Art through history; 2. Art and the eye; 3. Art and the brain; 4. Perceiving scenes; 5. Perceiving pictures; 6. Motion in art; 7. Colour in art; 8. Visual aesthetics and art; 9. Visual aesthetics and nature; 10. Evolution and art.

Rezensionen

'A sumptuous book covering art history and linking it to a broad and deep coverage of visual neurosciences. This is a delightful, engaging text for advanced undergraduates as well as for specialists in vision and in art who want to understand the overlap of the two disciplines. It will bring both groups of readers back to favourite works of art with a new appreciation.' Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes and Harvard University, Massachusetts