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ISBN: 0691087377 9780691087375 Year: 1997 Publisher: Princeton, NJ ; Chichester Princeton University Press
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In Art and Representation, John Willats presents a radically new theory of pictures. To do this, he has developed a precise vocabulary for describing the representational systems in pictures: the ways in which artists, engineers, photographers, mapmakers, and children represent objects. His approach is derived from recent research in visual perception and artificial intelligence, and Willats begins by clarifying the key distinction between the marks in a picture and the features of the scene that these marks represent. The methods he uses are thus closer to those of a modern structural linguist or psycholinguist than to those of an art historian. Using over 150 illustrations, Willats analyzes the representational systems in pictures by artists from a wide variety of periods and cultures. He then relates these systems to the mental processes of picture production, and, displaying an impressive grasp of more than one scholarly discipline, shows how the Greek vase painters, Chinese painters, Giotto, icon painters, Picasso, Paul Klee, and David Hockney have put these systems to work. But this book is not only about what systems artists use but also about why artists from different periods and cultures have used such different systems, and why drawings by young children look so different from those by adults. Willats argues that the representational systems can serve many different functions beyond that of merely providing a convincing illusion. These include the use of anomalous pictorial devices such as inverted perspective, which may be used for expressive reasons or to distance the viewer from the depicted scene by drawing attention to the picture as a painted surface. Willats concludes that art historical changes, and the developmental changes in children's drawings, are not merely arbitrary, nor are they driven by evolutionary forces. Rather, they are determined by the different functions that the representational systems in pictures can serve.
Aesthetics of art --- Gezichtsbedrog --- Illusions d'optique --- Oblique projection --- Optical illusions --- Optics [Psychological ] --- Perceptie [Visuele ] --- Perception [Visual ] --- Perception visuelle --- Perspectief --- Perspective --- Projection [Oblique ] --- Vision--Psychological aspects --- Visual perception --- Visuele perceptie --- Visuele waarneming --- Waarneming [Visuele ] --- Visual perception. --- Perspective. --- Optical illusions. --- Oblique projection. --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Architectural perspective --- Linear perspective --- Mechanical perspective --- Optics --- Space (Art) --- Space perception --- Projection --- Proportion (Art) --- Shades and shadows --- Illusions, Optical --- Hallucinations and illusions --- Physiological optics --- Psychological aspects --- art criticism --- philosophy of art
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ISBN: 9789079282128 Year: 2012 Publisher: Antwerpen Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten
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De voorbije vijfentwintig jaar werkte de auteur veelvuldig samen met vooraanstaande hedendaagse kunstenaars bij het maken van teksten, boeken, sculpturen, tentoonstellingen en films. In dit splinternieuwe, rijkelijk geïllustreerde boek brengt hij hierover verslag uit aan de hand van enkele concrete voorbeelden zoals het maken van de de monumentale oeuvrecatalogus over Panamarenko (1992), de Middelheim-catalogus over Ann Veronica Janssens (2003), een film over de Duitse choreograaf Stefan Dreher (2005) en de spraakmakende tentoonstelling 'Xanadu' in het S.MA.K. (2010). We maken kennis met tal van prominente figuren uit de Belgische kunstwereld en hun specifieke manier van kijken en handelen, die door Hans Theys beschreven wordt op basis van zijn ervaringen.
Cognitive psychology --- art criticism --- kunstfilosofie --- philosophy of art --- hedendaagse kunst --- kunstbeschouwing --- Contemporary [style of art] --- Art --- cognitieve psychologie --- Appréciation de l'art --- Art appreciation --- Art--Appréciation --- Critical thinking --- Denken [Kritisch ] --- Esprit critique --- Esthetische appreciatië --- Kritisch denken --- Kritische zin --- Kunst appreciatie --- Kunst waardering --- Kunstwaardering --- Optics [Psychological ] --- Perceptie [Visuele ] --- Perception [Visual ] --- Perception visuelle --- Thinking [Critical ] --- Vision--Psychological aspects --- Visual perception --- Visuele perceptie --- Visuele waarneming --- Waarneming [Visuele ] --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- onderzoek in de kunsten --- doctoraat in de kunsten --- participerende observatie --- deelnemend kijken --- boeken --- boekontwerp --- boekdesign --- fotografie --- Panamarenko --- Janssens Ann Veronica --- tentoonstellingen --- catalogi --- video --- videokunst --- Dreher Stefan --- Tuymans Luc --- Swennen Walter --- François Michel --- 7.01 --- art [fine art] --- Naveau, Nadia --- Janssens, Ann Veronica --- Claerbout, David --- Caeckenbergh, van, Patrick --- François, Michel --- Vermeiren, Didier --- Deleu, Luc --- Lohaus, Bernd --- Swennen, Walter --- Broodthaers, Marcel --- Colson, Vaast --- Vranken, Leon --- Tyfus, Dennis --- Bijl, Guillaume --- Tuerlinckx, Joëlle --- Bruyckere, De, Berlinde --- San, Van, Tamara --- Rombouts, Guy --- Belgium --- Art -- Appréciation --- Art -- Réception --- Goûts artistiques --- Réception de l'art --- Philosophy --- art [discipline]
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