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Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Klaus Landwehr

    1. Psychology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Chiba University, Yayoi-cho, Chiba-shi, 260, Japan
      FB 3 — Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal 1, Germany

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Part of the book series: Recent Research in Psychology (PSYCHOLOGY)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction: The ecological optics of information surfaces

    1. Introduction: The ecological optics of information surfaces

      • Klaus Landwehr
      Pages 1-11

  3. Pictures, plans, drawings, and displays — surrogate information and means for communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Picture perception as “indirect” perception

      • Alan Costall
      Pages 15-22

    3. The communicative potential of pictures: eleven theses

      • Hartmut Espe
      Pages 23-27

    4. On two distinct and quintessential kinds of pictorial representation

      • Jan B. Deregowski
      Pages 29-42

    5. Meaning, presence and absence in pictures

      • John M. Kennedy, Paul Gabias, Ruggero Pierantoni
      Pages 43-56

    6. Decomposing optical stimulus information by pictures

      • Klaus Landwehr
      Pages 57-69

    7. Communicating design ideas: a pictorial essay

      • Ingrid Lempp
      Pages 71-79

    8. Functional versus dysfunctional aspects of information surfaces

      • Martin Krampen
      Pages 81-87

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 137-143
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About this book

This book tries to apply James J. Gibson's ecological approach to picture perception to questions of visual communication and aesthetics; it provides examples from architecture, industrial design and the arts, to testify the feasibility of this application. Additional theoretical analyses, partly based on cross-cultural and clinical research, help supplement Gibson's basic conjecture, that picture perception is essentially based on invariants of optical structure, rather than interpretation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Psychology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Chiba University, Yayoi-cho, Chiba-shi, 260, Japan

    Klaus Landwehr

  • FB 3 — Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal 1, Germany

    Klaus Landwehr

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics

  • Editors: Klaus Landwehr

  • Series Title: Recent Research in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84106-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-52200-3Published: 21 February 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-84106-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7532

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 143

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Environmental Health

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