Psychology of Visual Art - Eye, Brain and Art

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: George Mather, George (University of Lincoln) Mather, Mather George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107005983
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00598-3
• No. of pages: 211
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Theory of art, Perception, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology