Inner vision : an exploration of art and the brain
"Inner Vision is the first attempt to relate art to the way in which the visual brain functions. Using a range of examples from artists including Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Magritte, Malevich, and Picasso, Semir Zeki takes the reader on an aesthetic tour of the brain. He describes in compelling detail how different areas of the brain respond to elements of the visual arts such as colour, form, line, and motion, and argues that our experience of art relates strongly to how the brain works."--Jacket
works of art
x, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780198505198, 0198505191
42004757
Part I: A function of the brain and of art
1. The brain's quest for essentials
2. Art's quest for essentials
3. The myth of the "seeing eye"
4. A neurobiological appraisal of Vermeer and Michaelangelo
5. The neurology of the Platonic Ideal
6. The Cubist search for essentials
7. The modularity of vision
8. Seeing and understanding
9. The modularity of visual aesthetics
10. The pathology of the Platonic Ideal and the Hegelian concept
Part II: The art of the receptive field
11. The receptive field
12. Mondrian, Malevich, and the neurophysiology of oriented lines
13. Mondrian, Ben Nichoson, Malevich, and the neurophysiology of squares and rectangles
14. Perceptual problems created by the receptive fields
15. The neurophysiology of the Metamalevich and the Metakandinsky
16. Kinetic art
Part III: A neurological examination of some art forms
17. Face imperception or a portrait of prosopagnosia
18. The physiology of colour vision
19. The fauvist brain
20. The neurology of abstract and representational art
21. Monet's brain
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