Varieties of Visual Experience
Varieties of Visual Experience

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Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9780810900271

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"A classic on the functions, styles and structure of the major visual art forms, this well-received text is reputed to have the best treatment available on the theory and practice of art criticism. It examines the connection between the visual, social, and physical dimensions of everyday life in which the arts perform essential roles, while illustrating clearly the common features of theme and style in works of art separated by time and culture. For art critics, artists, and all those interested in art criticism."--Publisher.

Art as Image and Idea
Art as Image and Idea

Author: Edmund Burke Feldman

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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A book on the functions, styles and structure of the major visual art forms, this text is reputed to have the best treatment available on the theory and practice of art criticism. It examines the connection between the visual, social, and physical dimensions of everyday life in which the arts perform essential roles, while illustrating clearly the common features of theme and style in works of art separated by time and culture.

Varieties of Visual Experience
Varieties of Visual Experience

Author: Edmund Burke Feldman

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13:

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Varieties is a classic text on the functions, styles and structure of the major visual art forms. It is reputed to be the best book on the theory and practice of art criticism for undergraduates.

The Contents of Visual Experience
The Contents of Visual Experience

Author: Susanna Siegel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-02-04

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0190294051

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What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties. Siegel starts by analyzing the notion of the contents of experience, and by arguing that theorists of all stripes should accept that experiences have contents. She then introduces a method for discovering the contents of experience: the method of phenomenal contrast. This method relies only minimally on introspection, and allows rigorous support for claims about experience. She then applies the method to make the case that we are conscious of many kinds of properties, of all sorts of causal properties, and of many other complex properties. She goes on to use the method to help analyze difficult questions about our consciousness of objects and their role in the contents of experience, and to reconceptualize the distinction between perception and sensation. Siegel's results are important for many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. They are also important for the psychology and cognitive neuroscience of vision.

Varieties of Anomalous Experience
Varieties of Anomalous Experience

Author: Etzel Cardena

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781433815294

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For much of the 20th century, unusual perceptions and sensations, radical alternations of consciousness, and other extraordinary subjective experiences were ignored as legitimate topics of study in mainstream psychology. Recent years, however, have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the scientific study of anomalous experiences. In this updated edition, the editors have invited experts to provide definitive reviews and analyses of a wide range of anomalous experiences, from commonly documented sensations and perceptions like synesthesia, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and auditory and visual hallucinations, to rarer and more seemingly inexplicable experiences, such as anomalous healing, past lives, near-death experiences, mystical experiences, and even alien abductions. The book makes a compelling case for the inclusion of these marginalized and underrecognized experiences as not merely incidental but essential to our understanding of human psychology. Book jacket.

Hallucinations
Hallucinations

Author: Oliver Sacks

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0307402193

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Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication--even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.

Visual Experience
Visual Experience

Author: Jack Hobbs

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 9780871926401

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LEVEL: Key Stage 4 onwards. A comprehensive art appreciation programme, 'The Visual Experience' is a complete visual art curriculum that integrates art history, aesthetics, criticism, and production. The Teacher's Edition does your preparation for you. The Teacher's Edition is correlated to the national visual arts standards and has: a wrap-around format; organisers for every chapter; clear lesson organisations; individual needs and interdisciplinary support; technology focus; and ancillary resources at point-of-use.

Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance
Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance

Author: David Karmon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1108808476

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This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with the built environment. His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual sources to prove that early modern audiences paid sustained attention to the multisensory experience of the buildings and cities in which they lived. Through reconstructing the Renaissance understanding of the senses, we can better gauge how constant interaction with the built environment shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding. Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance offers a stimulating new approach to the study of Renaissance architecture and urbanism as a kind of 'experiential trigger' that shaped ways of both thinking and being in the world.

Varieties of Modernism
Varieties of Modernism

Author: Paul Wood

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780300102963

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This work discusses the art of the middle third of the twentieth century. It consists of a short general introduction and four parts, each concentrating on a key aspect of the art of the period.