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Art, Perception and Reality

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Art, Perception and Reality
9.99 €
In this book on the nature of visual perception in art, the views of three eminent scholars collide. Art historian Ernst Gombrich, drawing our attention to the problem of resemblance, particularly in portraits and caricatures, concludes that we, unable often to describe the features of even the closest people, easily find similarities through empathy. Psychologist Julian Hochberg gently counters this argument with his theory of canonical object forms, suggesting that we pick up on similarities through "cognitive maps," or expectations that arise in the complex process of visual perception as our eye glides across the surface of a painting in some already-determined sequence. Finally, philosopher Max Black, after conceptually analyzing these and other approaches to visual perception, argues that there are neither sufficient nor necessary criteria for defining the conditions of artistic representation, and concludes that artistic representation is a "cluster concept." The essays presented here are based on the Thalheimer Public Lectures given by the authors in the philosophy department of Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s.
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