Inner vision
Subtitle: an exploration of art and the brain
By: Semir Zeki.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Art -- Psychology; Visual perception; Art -- Study and teaching; Visual cortex; Brain -- Physiology
Description: "Inner Vision is the first attempt to relate art to the way in which the visual brain functions. Using a range of examples from artists including Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Magritte, Malevich, and Picasso, Semir Zeki takes the reader on an aesthetic tour of the brain. He describes in compelling detail how different areas of the brain respond to elements of the visual arts such as colour, form, line, and motion, and argues that our experience of art relates strongly to how the brain works."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.