{"product_id":"9783031233470","title":"Vision, Illusion and Perception: A Brief Discourse","description":"\u003ch1\u003eVision, Illusion and Perception: A Brief Discourse\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDeręgowski, Jan B.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchaeological and anthropological investigations of depictions seldom extend beyond a single culture or a single geographical location, although there is a powerful factor common to all depictions, the factor of human perception. In this volume an attempt is made to show how this factor affects both creation and recognition of depictions, how, in common with everyday vision of the environment, \u003ci\u003etypical contours \u003c\/i\u003eare derived and used, not merely to depict individually readily recognisable models, but also how by concatenation they lead to such a splendid figure as Australian \u003ci\u003eKakadu \u003c\/i\u003ecrocodiles, or by distortion to creation of illusions of pictorial depth, such as is evoked by \u003ci\u003eLeonardo da Vinci’s\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eperspective \u003c\/i\u003eand by \u003ci\u003einverted (Byzantine) perspective  \u003c\/i\u003ethought by some to be an aberration. \u003ci\u003eBartel’s \u003c\/i\u003estudies show that pictorial depth is often achieved to the artist’s, and many a viewer’s, but not to geometer’s satisfaction by partial distortion, and Chinese masterpieces embody, side by side, ‘normal’ and inverted perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe visual process is universally uniform (if it were not, one would not be able to recognise an \u003ci\u003eAltamira \u003c\/i\u003ebison as a bison) and its foibles can be freely exploited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIts best known exploiter is probably \u003ci\u003eCezanne. \u003c\/i\u003eHis pictures are admired by many and puzzle many. Strzemiński postulated that they compound distinct lines of sight, thus endorsing primacy of \u003ci\u003ecentral vision, \u003c\/i\u003ea concept thought by \u003ci\u003eGombrich \u003c\/i\u003eto be of greater import to geometers than to artists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2023-04-04\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031233470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-23348-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 109\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44521905619084,"sku":"9783031233470","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031233470.jpg?v=1774529777","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031233470","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}