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This book is concerned with the artist's experience in recording his visual world as an art form, exploring how the creative painter SEES. It is basically a beginner's book on how to paint realistically, but the book abounds with information valuable to artists of all levels of experience--Jacket.
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Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, where they are, and how they move from our vision. Visual Perception takes a refreshingly different approach to this enigmatic sense. From the function that...
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Presents the author's critically acclaimed manifesto on how to recognize, evaluate, and understand the objects and landscape of the man-made world has influenced generations of design professionals, students, and aficionados.
"In an extraordinarily entertaining and idiosyncratic way, George Nelson has provided all of us - the visually backward in a verbally literate society - with a a primer on decoding the things we see every day. Highways, homes,...
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"This classic 1936 work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and appearing in English for the first time, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual effigies of those objects constructed by our brain according...
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This volume contains the edited proceedings of the first interdisciplinary symposium on pictorial processing, entitled 'What is a painting?', held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in April 1978, which brought together artists, psychologists and philosophers to exchange ideas about pictorial representation. The contributors examine the roles of perception and cognition in pictorial processing and present their ideas on theoretical issues raised by...
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From the moment you wake up, eat your breakfast, go through your day until you reach bedtime, you see millions of different images-different sizes, different colors. Why do we see what we do? And how sure are we that what we are seeing is actually true or is it affected by something else? You'll never know what is hiding behind or beneath the images that you see. It may be true that first impressions last, but remember, they aren't always right!
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In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of pictures that communicate hidden messages, either by implying something else, or by a shape or portrait which is carried covertly within another design. He analyses image processing stages...
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Do you believe in ghosts, or do you think these supernatural beings are a figment of one's imagination? Psychologically speaking, are they just hallucinations? Whether or not these entities truly exist cannot exactly be proven. While most of these illusions are a result of how our brain and eyes respond to each other, we have also learned to create many tricks through science, technology, and art. It is fascinating to discover and relearn these old...
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