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The Judgement of the Eye

The Metamorphoses of Geometry - One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness

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Authors:
  1. Jürgen Weber

    1. Institut für Elementares Formen, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

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  • Theory of perception developed by an artist

  • Well known sculptor (reliefs at Kennedy Center Washington, etc.)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-7
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  2. Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 8-8
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    2. Short Summary of the Main Ideas

      • Jürgen Weber
      Pages 9-10

    3. What Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer’s Disease

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      Pages 10-14

    4. What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like?

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      Pages 14-19

    5. The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology and Its Limitations

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      Pages 19-21

    6. My Question: How Do Forms Convey Content; Are There Visual Categories of Expression?

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      Pages 21-29

    7. The Rosette

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      Pages 29-32

    8. Contraction and Expansion

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      Pages 32-49

    9. The Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory — Identification Memory

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      Pages 49-62

    10. The “Orbits” and Their Application

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      Pages 62-65

    11. The Start of Ornamentation All over the World and at All Times

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      Pages 65-69

    12. Actual Enlargement and Reduction

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      Pages 69-74

    13. Rotated Surfaces

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      Pages 74-78

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 80-80
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    2. Form and Movement

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      Pages 81-89

    3. The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art

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      Pages 89-92

    4. The Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece

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      Pages 92-95

    5. Movement Schemata

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      Pages 96-100

    6. And Once Again the Visual Memory

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      Pages 101-102
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6 PART I Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual Information Chapter 1 Short Summary of the Main Ideas 9 Chapter 2 What Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer's Disease 10 Chapter 3 What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like? 14 Chapter 4 The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology and Its Limitations 19 Chapter 5 My Question: How Do Forms Convey Content; Are There Visual Categories of Expression? 21 Chapter 6 The Rosette 29 Chapter 7 Contraction and Expansion 32 Chapter 8 The Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory - Identification Memory 49 Chapter 9 The "Orbits" and Their Application 62 Chapter 10 The Start of Ornamentation All over the World and at All Times 65 Chapter 11 Actual Enlargement and Reduction 69 Chapter 12 Rotated Surfaces 74 PART II l3 Form and Movement 81 Chapter Chapter 14 The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art 89 Chapter 15 The Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece 92 Chapter 16 Movement Schemata 96 Chapter 17 And Once Again the Visual Memory 101 102 Chapter 18 So-called Naturalism 110 Summing-up 114 Bibliography 116 Index ll8 Figures 5 This book is essentially about the question of For more than 20 years I maintained a constant what forms say to us, what information they con­ dialogue with Rudolf Arnheim.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Elementares Formen, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Jürgen Weber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Judgement of the Eye

  • Book Subtitle: The Metamorphoses of Geometry - One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness

  • Authors: Jürgen Weber

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6112-8

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-83768-9Published: 02 July 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-6112-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 193

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, General Psychology, Neurosciences, Human Physiology

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