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Vision in Motion – Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
Michael Zimmermann
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Description for Vision in Motion – Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
Hardback. Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, this book explores the problems in the study of vision and cognition: to make sense of the sensations we experience when we see something, we must configure many moments into a synchronous image. Num Pages: 528 pages, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 164 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and scientists from Goethe to Cezanne have argued that to understand vision as a mere mirroring of the outside world is to overlook a more important cognitive act of seeing that is dependent on time. Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, Vision in Motion explores one of the most vexing problems in the study of vision and ... Read more
Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and scientists from Goethe to Cezanne have argued that to understand vision as a mere mirroring of the outside world is to overlook a more important cognitive act of seeing that is dependent on time. Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, Vision in Motion explores one of the most vexing problems in the study of vision and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037345221
SKU
V9783037345221
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About Michael Zimmermann
Michael F. Zimmermann is an art historian and chair of the Department of Art History at the Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Art Historian: National Traditions and Institutional Practices and Seurat and the Art Theory of His Time.
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