Dürer's Devices: Beyond the Projective Model of Pictures. The Perception of Pictures

Durer's Devices: Beyond the Projective Model of Pictures is a collection of papers that discusses the nature of picture making and perception. One paper presents a perceptual theory of pictorial representation in which cultural and historical options in styles of depiction that appear to be different are actually closely related perceptually. Another paper discusses pictorial functions and perceptual structures including pictorial representation, perceptual theory, flat canvass, and the deep world. One paper suggests that perception can be more a matter of information'make up'than'pick up.'Light becomes somewhat informative and the eye, correspondingly, becomes less or more presumptive. Another paper notes that human vision is transformed by our modes of representation, that image formation can be essentially incomplete, false, or misleading (primarily as regards dramatic performance and pictorial representation). One paper makes three claims that: (1) the blind have untapped depiction abilities; (2) haptics, involving the sense of touch, have an intuitive sense of perspective; and (3) depiction is perceptual based on graphic elements and pictorial configurations. The collection is suitable for psychologists, physiologists, psychophysicists, and researchers in human perception or phenomenology. Content: ACADEMIC PRESS SERIES IN COGNITION AND PERCEPTION, Page ii Front Matter, Page iii Copyright, Page iv List of Contributors, Page ix Foreword, Pages xi-xiv, RUDOLF ARNHEIM Preface, Pages xv-xvii Introduction, Pages xix-xxii, MARGARET A. HAGEN Contents of Volume I, Page xxiii CHAPTER 1 - Generative Theory: A Perceptual Theory of Pictorial Representation, Pages 3-46, MARGARET A. HAGEN CHAPTER 2 - Pictorial Functions and Perceptual Structures, Pages 47-93, JULIAN HOCHBERG CHAPTER 3 - How The Eye Makes Up What the Light Leaves Out, Pages 95-130, D.N. PERKINS, ROBERT G. COOPER Jr. CHAPTER 4 - Visual Scenarios: The Role of Representation in Visual Perception, Pages 131-152, MARX W. WARTOFSKY CHAPTER 5 - Development of Pictorial Perception, Pages 155-192, RICHARD OLSON, ALBERT YONAS, ROBERT COOPER CHAPTER 6 - A Perspective on Cross-Cultural Picture Perception, Pages 193-226, REBECCA K. JONES, MARGARET A. HAGEN CHAPTER 7 - Pictorial Perception: Hemispheric Specialization and Developmental Regression in the Neurologically Impaired, Pages 227-261, HUGH L. COFFMAN CHAPTER 8 - Blind People Recognizing and Making Haptic Pictures, Pages 263-303, JOHN M. KENNEDY CHAPTER 9 - Picture Perception in Nonhuman Subjects, Pages 305-343, PATRICK A. CABE Subject Index, Pages 345-356 V. 1. Alberti's Window, The Projective Model Of Pictorial Information.--v. 2. Dürer's Devices, Beyond The Projective Model Of Pictures. Edited By Margaret A. Hagen ; With A Foreword By James J. Gibson. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes. v. 1. Alberti's window, the projective model of pictorial information. v. 2. Dürer's devices, beyond the projective model of pictures.