Images and Understanding. Thoughts about Images. Ideas about Understanding. A Collection of Essays based on a Rank Prize Funds' International Symposium Organized with the Help of Jonathan Miller. Held at the Royal Society in October 1986.

Barlow, Horace (Ed.), Colin Blakemore and Miranda Weston-Smith:

ISBN 10: 0521369444 / ISBN 13: 9780521369442

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1986

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401 S. mit Abb. Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - Inhalt: The Essence of Images, Jonathan Miller -- Movement, Nicholas Humphrey -- Narration, Mel Calman -- Making Images, Christopher Longuet-Higgins -- Images and Thought, Richard Held -- Images and Meaning, Margaret Drabble -- Pictures in the MindNelson Goodman -- Postscript: On Understanding Mental Images, Roger Shepard. ISBN 0521369444 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Images and Understanding. Thoughts about Images. Ideas about Understanding. A Collection of Essays based on a Rank Prize Funds' International Symposium Organized with the Help of Jonathan Miller. Held at the Royal Society in October 1986.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521369444
• ISBN 13: 9780521369442
• Binding: Originalbroschur.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychologie

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Synopsis

How do you paint a picture of infinity? How do you dance about death? How do you draw a diagram explaining entropy? Images and Understanding explores the human problem of moving facts and ideas from one mind to another - the problems of how we see and communicate using images expressed in pictures, diagrams, words, music and dance. For artists as well as scientists discussion of this topic is timely; electronic and computing technology is expanding the means of generating and communicating images, while physiology and psychology are revealing the neural mechanisms of coding, perceiving and understanding them. The book is divided into six sections, each with an explanatory introduction followed by comprehensively illustrated contributions from internationally distinguished figures from fields as diverse as art history, choreography, psychology, computer science, and philosophy. Images and Understanding is unique in viewing the problems of imagery through the eyes of both science and art; it gives new insight into images and new ideas about understanding.

Review

."..a useful survey of visual art.'" Choice