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Cognitive iconology : when and how psychology explains images /

Cognitive Iconology is a new theory of the relation of psychology to art. Instead of being an application of psychological principles, it is a methodologically aware account of psychology, art and the nature of explanation. Rather than fight over biology or culture, it shows how they must fit togeth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verstegen, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Colección:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction:; Toward a Cognitive Iconology; The New Two Cultures; Cognition + Iconology; Psychology
  • What's to Fear?; Structure of the Book; Chapter 1; Cognitive Iconology: Understanding versus Explanation; Arnheim's Woes; An Example: Cross-Cultural Perception; What does it mean to Explain Something?; Ontological Priority; Epistemic Priority; Against Conflation; Downward Conflation; Separating Sociology from Psychology; The Proper Place of Cultural Analysis; What is Left Over once Society is Extracted?; Upward Conflation.
  • Separating Biology from PsychologyThe Proper Place of Biological Analysis; What is Left Over once Biology is Extracted?; Stratified Explanation and Cognitive Glue; Chapter 2; Fiction and Transcription: Two Ecologies of Perception; Linear Perspective; Drawing and the Naive Theory of Mind; Two Ecologies of Perception; The Ecology of Standard Graphic Communication; The Ecology of Transcriptive Perspective; Chapter 3; A Classification of Perspective ""Corrections"" in Images; The Judgment of the Eye; From Prospectiva Naturalis to Good Form; Human Figures; Representing Architecture.
  • Relating Space to ViewerCorrections and Distortions; Chapter 4; Presence over Perspective: Portraits-in-Pictures; Curious Images; Perspective and Meta-Painting; Occasions for Portraiture; The Image without Presence; The Image with Presence; Problems of Reality in Virtual Portraits Parallelto the Picture Plane; Presence, Absence and Perspective; Chapter 5; Oblique Images from the Side and Below; The Problem; Discovering Oblique Viewing; The Phenomenon Clarified; Distinguished from Anamorphism; Distinguished from Robust Perspectives; Three Levels of Site-Specificity.
  • Viewing Pictures from the SideViewing Pictures from Below; Oblique Perception and Cultural Explanations; Chapter 6; Acting Irrational around Art; Are Objects Alive?; A Real Complementary Solution: Cognitive Glue; Similarity and Contagion; Similarity and Contagion with Images; Witnessing Miraculous Behavior; Iconoclasm; Society: The Focalizer; Conclusion; Cognitive Proclivities for the Study of Art; Tendencies are Not Probabilities; Gestalt Theory as Mediator; Bibliography; Index.