The image and the eye : further studies in the psychology of pictorial representation
1982, 1st edition. London : Phaidon. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #393187
ISBN: 0714822450
Physical description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Originally published in volume form 1982. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects: Picture perception Psychological aspects; Visual perception Psychological aspects; Art Psychology; Aesthetics; Art theory; Psychology - artistic representation.
Price: €40.00