Title: Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain
Abstract: 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 Nicholson, 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
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-02-17
Language: en
Type: book
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