Looking into pictures : an interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space / edited by Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, Margaret Atherton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hecht, Heiko.

Schwartz, Robert, 1940-

Atherton, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Picture perception--Congresses.

Picture perception.

Perspective--Congresses.

Perspective.

Picture interpretation--Congresses.

Picture interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 417 p., [4] p. of plates ) ill. (some col.) ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Interdisciplinary explorations of the implications of recent developments in vision theory for our understanding of the nature of pictorial representation and picture perception.

Contents:

Pt. 1. The dual nature of picture perception. In defense of seeing-in / Richard Wollheim ; Conjoint representations and the mental capacity for multiple simultaneous perspectives / Rainer Mausfeld ; Relating direct and indirect perception of spatial layout / H.A. Sedgwick ; The dual nature of picture perception: a challenge to current general accounts of visual perception / Reinhard Niederée and Dieter Heyer ; Perceptual strategies and pictorial content / Mark Rollins

Pt. 2. The status of perspective. Optical laws or symbolic rules? the dual nature of pictorial systems / John Willats ; Perspective, convention, and compromise / Robert Hopkins ; Resemblance reconceived / Klaus Sachs-Hombach ; What you see is what you get: the problems of linear perspective / Klaus Rehkämper ; Pictures of perspective: theory or therapy? / Patrick Maynard

Pt. 3. The nature and structure of reconceived pictorial space. Reconceiving perceptual space / James E. Cutting ; Pictorial space / Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. van Doorn ; Truth and meaning in pictorial space / Sheena Rogers ; Line and borders of surfaces: grouping and foreshortening / John M. Kennedy, Igor Juricevic, and Juan Bai ; Irreconcilable views / Hermann Kalkofen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-403) and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27516-3

0-585-48106-7

OCLC:

53885221