Cognition and the Visual Arts

Name: Cognition and the Visual Arts
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ISBN: 9780262691864

ISBN-10: 0262691868

ISBN-13: 9780262691864

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert L. Solso

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An experienced and prolific writer, Robert Solso has a gift for simplifying sometimes difficult concepts in science. Here he brings a refreshing new approach to the psychology of art, synthesizing research from a vast collection of data on how humans perceive, process, and store information and applying it to the viewing and interpretation of art. In this first systematic study of the connection between the new cognitive psychology and its importance to art, Solso reflects on the long relationship between humankind and art, observing that "mind and art are one." A major theme of this book, in fact, is that the clearest view of the mind comes when we create or experience art, a reverse of…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/26/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Robert L. Solso is Professor and Head of the Cognitive Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.



Series Foreword


Preface



The Big Window: The Science of Vision



The Brain and Vision



Figure and Form Perception



Visual Cognition



Context, Cognition, and Art



The Eyes Have It: Eye Movements and the Perception of Art



A Truly Marvelous Feast: Visual Perspective



Perspective and the History of Art



Connections: Canonic Representations, Memory, and the Cognition of Art


Notes


References


Illustration Credits


Index