On picture making and picture seeing : a brief discourse / Jan B. Deregowski.
2023
BF241 .D47 2023
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Title
On picture making and picture seeing : a brief discourse / Jan B. Deregowski.
Author
Derȩgowski, Jan B., author.
ISBN
9783031233487 (electronic bk.)
3031233484 (electronic bk.)
9783031233470
3031233476
3031233484 (electronic bk.)
9783031233470
3031233476
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
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10.1007/978-3-031-23348-7 doi
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BF241 .D47 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
152.14
Summary
Archaeological and anthropological investigations of depictions seldom extend beyond a single culture or a single geographical location, although there is a powerful factor common to all depictions, the factor of human perception. In this volume an attempt is made to show how this factor affects both creation and recognition of depictions, how, in common with everyday vision of the environment, typical contours are derived and used, not merely to depict individually readily recognisable models, but also how by concatenation they lead to such a splendid figure as Australian Kakadu crocodiles, or by distortion to creation of illusions of pictorial depth, such as is evoked by Leonardo da Vincis perspective and by inverted (Byzantine) perspective thought by some to be an aberration. Bartels studies show that pictorial depth is often achieved to the artists, and many a viewers, but not to geometers satisfaction by partial distortion, and Chinese masterpieces embody, side by side, normal and inverted perspective. The visual process is universally uniform (if it were not, one would not be able to recognise an Altamira bison as a bison) and its foibles can be freely exploited. Its best known exploiter is probably Cezanne. His pictures are admired by many and puzzle many. Strzemiski postulated that they compound distinct lines of sight, thus endorsing primacy of central vision, a concept thought by Gombrich to be of greater import to geometers than to artists.
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Vision, illusion, perception ; v. 4.
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Table of Contents
Introduction in which the reader enters pictorial donnybrook
On perception of depth, real and portrayed
On perspective in many guises
On prof. Farish's immediately comprehensible and Cezanne's immediately puzzling pictures
On cultural press; If we draw, what and how should we draw?.
On perception of depth, real and portrayed
On perspective in many guises
On prof. Farish's immediately comprehensible and Cezanne's immediately puzzling pictures
On cultural press; If we draw, what and how should we draw?.