Looking into pictures
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space
By: edited by Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, Margaret Atherton
Contributors: Hecht, Heiko; Schwartz, Robert, 1940-; Atherton, Margaret
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Picture perception -- Congresses; Perspective -- Congresses; Picture interpretation -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "In Looking into Pictures, philosophers, psychologists, and art historians explore the implications of recent theories of vision for our understanding of the nature of pictorial representation and picture perception."--Jacket.
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-403) and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.  The dual nature of picture perception.  In defense of seeing-in / Richard Wollheim ; Conjoint representations and the mental capacity for multiple simultaneous perspectives / Rainer Mausfeld ; Relating direct and indirect perception of spatial layout / H.A. Sedgwick ; The dual nature of picture perception: a challenge to current general accounts of visual perception / Reinhard Niederée and Dieter Heyer ; Perceptual strategies and pictorial content / Mark Rollins; title: Pt. 2. The status of perspective.  Optical laws or symbolic rules? the dual nature of pictorial systems / John Willats ; Perspective, convention, and compromise / Robert Hopkins ; Resemblance reconceived / Klaus Sachs-Hombach ; What you see is what you get: the problems of linear perspective / Klaus Rehkämper ; Pictures of perspective: theory or therapy? / Patrick Maynard; title: Pt. 3. The nature and structure of reconceived pictorial space.  Reconceiving perceptual space / James E. Cutting ; Pictorial space / Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. van Doorn ; Truth and meaning in pictorial space / Sheena Rogers ; Line and borders of surfaces: grouping and foreshortening / John M. Kennedy, Igor Juricevic, and Juan Bai ; Irreconcilable views / Hermann Kalkofen