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Title Looking into pictures : an interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space / edited by Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, Margaret Atherton.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 417 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bradford Bks.
Bradford Bks.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-403) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The dual nature of picture perception. In defense of seeing-in / Richard Wollheim ; Conjoint representations and the mental capacity for multiple simultaneous perspectives / Rainer Mausfeld ; Relating direct and indirect perception of spatial layout / H.A. Sedgwick ; The dual nature of picture perception: a challenge to current general accounts of visual perception / Reinhard Niederée and Dieter Heyer ; Perceptual strategies and pictorial content / Mark Rollins -- pt. 2. The status of perspective. Optical laws or symbolic rules? the dual nature of pictorial systems / John Willats ; Perspective, convention, and compromise / Robert Hopkins ; Resemblance reconceived / Klaus Sachs-Hombach ; What you see is what you get: the problems of linear perspective / Klaus Rehkämper ; Pictures of perspective: theory or therapy? / Patrick Maynard -- pt. 3. The nature and structure of reconceived pictorial space. Reconceiving perceptual space / James E. Cutting ; Pictorial space / Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. van Doorn ; Truth and meaning in pictorial space / Sheena Rogers ; Line and borders of surfaces: grouping and foreshortening / John M. Kennedy, Igor Juricevic, and Juan Bai ; Irreconcilable views / Hermann Kalkofen.
Summary Annotation Interdisciplinary explorations of the implications of recent developments in vision theory for our understanding of the nature of pictorial representation and picture perception.
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Subject Picture perception -- Congresses.
Picture perception.
Perspective -- Congresses.
Perspective.
Picture interpretation -- Congresses.
Picture interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congressen (vorm)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Hecht, Heiko.
Schwartz, Robert, 1940-
Atherton, Margaret.
Other Form: Print version: Looking into pictures. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003 0262083108 (DLC) 2002070319 (OCoLC)49751247
ISBN 9780262275163 (electronic book)
0262275163 (electronic book)
0585481067 (electronic book)
9780585481067 (electronic book)
9780262083102
0262083108 (Trade Cloth)