Art and Perception: Towards a Visual Science of Art

This collection of articles includes speculative and classical theories about what is known and believed about the visual, the eye, and the work of the brain in understanding visual communications. The 16 articles here cover such diverse topics as the movement toward a visual science of art, spatial organization principles in art, the origin of entasis (illusion, aesthetics or engineering), brain activity and implied motion in abstract paintings, designing visually rich textures, Piranesi and the "infinite prisons," gender's effect on the hemispherical laterality of Rembrandt's portraits, artful visions, visual interest during an aesthetic experience, illusions of movement, a universal model of aesthetic perception, portraits and the recognition of face images, fractal-like image statistics, statistical regularities of art images, disassociating pattern and perceptual differences in oculomotor behavior, and the science and art of autosterograms. VSP is a subsidiary of Brill. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)