Inner vision : an exploration of art and the brain

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• PART ONE A function of the brain and of art
• 1 The brain's quest for essentials = 1
• 2 Art's quest for essentials = 8
• 3 The myth of the 'seeing eye = 13
• 4 A neurobiological appraisal of Vermeer and Michelangelo = 22
• 5 The neurology of the Platonic Ideal = 37
• 6 The Cubist search for essentials = 50
• 7 The modularity of vision = 58
• 8 Seeing and understanding = 70
• 9 The modularity of visual aesthetics = 81
• 10 The pathology of the Platonic Ideal and the Hegelian Concept = 90
• PART TWO The art of the receptive field
• 11 The receptive field = 99
• 12 Mondrian, Malevich and the neurophysiology of oriented lines = 104
• 13 Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Malevich and the neurophysiology of squares and rectangles = 118
• 14 Perceptual problems created by the receptive fields = 126
• 15 The neurophysiology of the M$$e'$$taMalevich and the M$$e'$$taKandinsky = 133
• 16 Kinetic art = 143
• PART THREE A neurological examination of some art forms
• 17 Face imperception or a portrait of prosopagnosia = 167
• 18 The physiology of colour vision = 183
• 19 The Fauvist brain = 197
• 20 The neurology of abstract and representational art = 205
• 21 Monet's brain = 209
• Epilogue = 216
• Index = 221