The Judgement of the Eye: The Metamorphoses of Geometry - One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness

by Jïrgen Weber

Overview

The author, Jürgen Weber, brings together the results of various disciplines and his own research and experience as a sculptor and painter and stitches together an exciting new theory of perception of form. In doing so, Weber - who also has a scientific background - explores the fascinating question of what additional information the thing that is seen conveys. How do we tell the difference between a cheerful and a gloomy face? Why do we see that a bud will open shortly? Why do we find some phenomena to be dangerous and others to be desirable? These question have not yet been investigated in a systematic and scientific way, although they are of vital importance to our behaviour. No doubt, this book represents a unique and timely contribution to the many disciplines concerned with the wonders of perception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783211837689
Publisher:	Springer Vienna
Publication date:	08/12/2002
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contents.- I Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual Information.- 1 Short Summary of the Main Ideas.- 2 What Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer’s Disease.- 3 What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like?.- 4 The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology and Its Limitations.- 5 My Question: How Do Forms Convey Content; Are There Visual Categories of Expression?.- 6 The Rosette.- 7 Contraction and Expansion.- 8 The Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory — Identification Memory.- 9 The “Orbits” and Their Application.- 10 The Start of Ornamentation All over the World and at All Times.- 11 Actual Enlargement and Reduction.- 12 Rotated Surfaces.- II.- 13 Form and Movement.- 14 The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art.- 15 The Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece.- 16 Movement Schemata.- 17 And Once Again the Visual Memory.- 18 So-called Naturalism.- Summing-up.- Summing-up.- Figures.