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- First systematic approach to the analysis of the structure of paintings
- Application, to paintings, of a system of rules that have proven of value to computer-aided design
- Application, to paintings, of a new history-based approach to geometry that shows the ability to explain and unify the artistic and scientific disciplines
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Michael Leyton has developed new foundations for geometry in which shape is equivalent to memory storage. A principal argument of these foundations is that artworks are maximal memory stores. The theory of geometry is developed from Leyton's fundamental laws of memory storage, and this book shows that these laws determine the structure of paintings. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that the emotion expressed by a painting is actually the memory extracted by the laws. Therefore, the laws of memory storage allow the systematic and rigorous mapping not only of the compositional structure of a painting, but also of its emotional expression. The argument is supported by detailed analyses of paintings by Picasso, Raphael, Cezanne, Gauguin, Modigliani, Ingres, De Kooning, Memling, Balthus and Holbein.
Authors and Affiliations
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Psychology Department, Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Michael Leyton
About the author
Michael Leyton's mathematical work on shape has been used by scientists in over 40 disciplines from chemical engineering to meteorology. His scientific contributions have received major prizes, such as a presidential award and a medal for scientific achievement. His new foundations to geometry are elaborated in his books in Springer-Verlag and MIT Press. Besides his scientific and mathematical work, he is also a highly exhibited painter and sculptor, and his architecture designs have been published by Birkhauser-Architectural. Also he is the composer of published string quartets. He is president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics, and is on the faculty of the Psychology Department and the DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Structure of Paintings
Authors: Michael Leyton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-35742-2
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-35739-2Published: 23 August 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-35742-2Published: 07 July 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 237
Topics: Computer Graphics, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Media Design, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities